THE ROOSEVELTS: An Intimate History. Based On A Documentary Film By Ken Burns With A Preface By Ken Burns. Picture Research By Susanna Steisel ~ Design By Maggie Hinders.

grey hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 11"x9.5"). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (nap). b&w photo illustrated endpapers. xxi+503p+colophon. glossy pages throughout. a word about sources. index. illustration credits. film credits. illustrated throughout with full color and b&w photos & illustrations. "with 796 photographs". corrigenda slip tipped in at rear. biography. american history. spanish american war. world war i. world war ii. world history. ~ A vivid and personal portrait of America~s greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation~the companion volume to the seven~part PBS documentary series. The authors of the acclaimed and best~selling The Civil War, Jazz, The War, and Baseball present an intimate history of three extraordinary individuals from the same extraordinary family~Theodore, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts, and the acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns help us understand for the first time that, despite the fierce partisanship of their eras, the Roosevelts were far more united than divided. All the history the Roosevelts made is here, but this is primarily an intimate account, the story of three people who overcame obstacles that would have undone less forceful personalities. Theodore Roosevelt would push past childhood frailty, outpace depression, survive terrible grief~and transform the office of the presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt, orphaned and alone as a child, would endure her husband's betrayal, battle her own self~doubts, and remake herself into the most consequential first lady in American history~and the most admired woman on earth. And Franklin Roosevelt, born to privilege and so pampered that most of his youthful contemporaries dismissed him as a charming lightweight, would summon the strength to lead the nation through the two greatest crises since the Civil War, though he could not take a single step unaided. The three were towering personalities, but The Roosevelts shows that they were also flawed human beings who confronted in their personal lives issues familiar to all of us: anger and the need for forgiveness, courage and cowardice, confidence and self~doubt, loyalty to family and the need to be true to oneself This is the story of the Roosevelts ~ no other American family ever touched so many lives.…