I bought this book after seeing it's author on the C-PAN Book show. She obviously KNEW her stuff and I was captivated. There's enough history here to satisfy any historian and enough tabloid (albeit WELL documented) to satisfy ANYBODY else. Highly readable. Lets you really appreciate what all of the major players were going through during the period of the Roosevelt years. Boy oh boy, the press NOWDAYS would have minced the Roosevelts and all of their company to fine hash. So MUCH potential tabloid fodder! As it is Ms. Goodwin has given us a still respectful, sympathetic analysis of a White House full of very human people who were just doing the best they could from within the confines of an historic and personal pressure cooker.
Beautiful prose and well documented, this book is an excellent history of the FDR administration. Plus, it provides a lot of insight to the present times, particularly the democratic viewpoint. Very interesting. And, there are photographs - a fun addition, for a change of visual presentation.
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Historically important time. The author is a great writer.
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Great book at a great price!
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great book great author
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