Franklin D. Roosevelt - A Political Life

Informationen zum Autor Robert Dallek is the author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963 , Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President and Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power . He won the Bancroft Prize in 1980 for his classic Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 , and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of American Historians, for which he served as president from 2004 to 2005. He lives in Washington, DC. Klappentext Robert Dallek is the author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963 , Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President and Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power . He won the Bancroft Prize in 1980 for his classic Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 , and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of American Historians, for which he served as president from 2004 to 2005. He lives in Washington, DC. Zusammenfassung From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America's greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt. 'Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically objective and wide-angled ... Roosevelt is with us again in Dallek's outstanding cradle-to-grave study' Douglas Brinkley, Washington Post 'Assuredly the best single-volume Roosevelt biography' Eric Rauchway, The Times Literary Supplement 'Essential ... a master of the presidential biography captures Roosevelt's compassion and sense of solidarity' Greg Grandin, Guardian 'An insightful, incisive and intelligent one-volume work - and a pointed primer on how things in Washington get done. In a period defined by division, Dallek crafts a pointillist portrait of the four-term president, who knew almost intuitively how to reach consensus' Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday ...

Product details

• Authors: Robert Dallek, Dallek Robert
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.2018
• EAN: 9780141986593
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198659-3
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Military / World War II, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, Political leaders & leadership, Second World War, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, History of the Americas, Political leaders and leadership