That Man
An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir.Written with skill and grace, this is truly a unique account of the personality, conduct, greatness of character, and common humanity of that man in the White House, as outraged conservatives called FDR. Jackson simply but eloquently provides an insider's view of Roosevelt…
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Weitere Autoren: Barrett, John Q. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-988335-6
- EAN: 9780199883356
- Produktnummer: 14000180
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'429 KB
- Abbildungen: 36 halftones & line illus.
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Robert H. Jackson was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1941 to his death in 1954. A major figure in American legal history, he also served as Solicitor General and Attorney General of the United States, and the American Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trial. Author of the best-selling The Nürnberg Case, he is considered by many to be the finest writer ever to sit on the Supreme Court.John Q. Barrett is Professor of Law at St. John's University in New York and Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York. He formerly served in the office of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh investigating Iran-Contra, and in the U.S. Department of Justice. He discovered the manuscript of That Man among Jackson's papers while researching a biography of the Justice.William E. Leuchtenburg, the leading historian of Roosevelt and the New Deal, has contributed a foreword discussing Jackson's relationship with FDR.
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