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Zusatztext “This is at once an important! insightful! and highly entertaining portrait of two men at the peak of their powers who! through their genius! common will! and uncommon friendship! saved the world. Jon Meacham’s Franklin and Winston takes its place in the front ranks of all that has been written about these two great men.“ —Tom Brokaw! author of The Greatest Generation “Franklin and Winston is a sensitive! perceptive! and absorbing portrait of the friendship that saved the democratic world in the greatest war in history.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger! Jr.! author of The Age of Roosevelt “Jon Meacham has done groundbreaking work by focusing on the World War II alliance between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as a friendship. Using important new sources! he has brought us a shrewd! original! sensitive! and fascinating look at the many-layered relationship between these two towering human beings! as well as their friends! families! aides! and allies. The book reveals the emotional undercurrents that linked FDR and Churchill—and sometimes estranged them—and teases out which of the ties between them were heartfelt and which were based on raw mutual political need. Meacham triumphantly shows how lucky we are that Roosevelt and Churchill were in power together during some of the most threatening moments of the twentieth century.” —Michael Beschloss! author of The Conquerors: Roosevelt! Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany! 1941–1945 “The relationship between FDR and Churchill was the most important political friendship of the twentieth century! not only determining the outcome of World War II but also setting a pattern that has endured ever since. Jon Meacham brings it to vivid life! shedding new insights into its strange and poignant complexity! and why its legacy has helped shape the modern world.” —Richard Holbrooke! author of To End a War “Jon Meacham enlivens the two men! their families! and their personal relations and relationships! providing a human context for the world-shaping leaders of the Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War.” —Warren F. Kimball! author of Forged in War: Roosevelt! Churchill! and the Second World War Informationen zum Autor Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer. The author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children. Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one-a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the fi...
