Before the Trumpet
Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905
Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world. In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that world-Hyde Park on the Hudson and Campobello Island, Groton and Harvard and the Continent-to recreate as never before the formative years of the man who would become the 20th century's greatest president. Here, drawn from thousands of original documents (many never previously published), is a richly-detailed, intimate biography, its central figure surrounded by a colorful cast that includes an opi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8041-7334-6
- EAN: 9780804173346
- Produktnummer: 16086594
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'480 KB
- Abbildungen: 32 PP. B&W
Über den Autor
Geoffrey C. Ward is the coauthor of The Civil War (with Ken Burns and Ric Burns), and the author of A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize.
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