The protagonist outshone Other reviewers have commented on the "epic" scale ("epic" being the parlance of the day) of this book. Brands, writes with an ease not common among academic historians...Brands revisits all the familiar material with a storyteller’s touch, making Traitor to His Class a good beginner’s book for readers seeking a fuller sense of FDR’s life and times than the entertainment media can provide. Tente novamenteDesculpe, o registro do seu voto falhou. This means anyone attempting such a feat needs to have some knowledge and the capacity to write a political, economic, and military history all in one book. I got a little bogged down sometimes with all the politics { :) ... but I suppose that is the reason for the writing!}. Drawing on archival materials, public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, acclaimed bestselling historian and biographer H. W. Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Roosevelt’s life and career.Brands explores the powerful influence of FDR’s dominating mother and the often tense and always unusual partnership between FDR and his wife, Eleanor, and her indispensable contributions to his presidency. Em vez disso, nosso sistema considera coisas como se uma avaliação é recente e se o avaliador comprou o item na Amazon. November 4th 2008 It took me about a month of reading, on and off, to finish the book, and it felt like the decades of FDR's career passed in the meantime. When I did read, I was fascinated by FDR's life, impressed by his leadership, alarmed by his (for lack of a better word) manipulation, and so intrigued by how it all went down.
Brands gives tangibility to both his subject and his subject's times.
Traitor to His Class brilliantly captures the qualities that have made FDR a beloved figure to millions of Americans. I had been told that my great-great uncle almost became Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic Monthly, the Smithsonian, the National Interest, the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the Political Science Quarterly, American History, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals. [ Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ] By Brands By that, I mean, that when Brands mentioned people from the sections on FDR's New York career, I had to stop and try to remember who they were. I got a little bogged down sometimes with all the politics { :) ... but I suppose that is the reason for the writing!}.
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In his youth and young adulthood he had often spent Sundays on the golf course, but his golfing days were long over, to his lasting regret. Encontre todos os livros, leia sobre o autor, e muito mais. -- Warren Delano spoiled all his children but Sara especially. As a biography, it is less so. Actually, that particular slang works well to describe the sheer breadth of FDR's story.
Although I very much liked the book I was disappointed that it did not do enough to describe the ideas of the people opposed to the FDR economic policies. by Doubleday [ On a personal note, I learned the truth of family story in this book.
This is a masterly review of Roosevelt and his times. We're told what FDR did, but as a general rule, not why he did it. Roosevelt held strong and Stalin caved.
Brands and Jon Meacham On the eve of the historic 2008 presidential election, we were fortunate to chat with historians H.W. This is a masterly review of Roosevelt and his times.