Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom - Softcover

Burns, James MacGregor

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9780156788755: Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom

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ISBN 10: 0156788756 ISBN 13: 9780156788755

Publisher: Harcourt, 1973

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The division between a man of ideals and a protector of presidential authority is the focus of a detailed study of Roosevelt during the difficult war years

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About the Author:

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, James MacGregor Burns is a preeminent historian and political scientist, and he is considered by many to be the leading expert on the subject of leadership. He the author of several books, including Leadership and The Three Roosevelts. He is a professor emeritus at Williams College.

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"I believe this will be the definitive book on Roosevelt in the wary years" --William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

"A work so readable and so wise in the ways of our modern domestic and international history that anyone who would understand the American republic at this perilous point in the 20th century should not miss it." -- Stewart L. Udall

"Engrossing, informative, endlessly readable." -- Barbara Tuchman, author of The Guns of August

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