Leo T. reviewed Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on + 1775 more book reviews
I recently read several chapters about FDR and Mrs. Roosevelt during WWII and so only glanced at this volume that I bought from a branch library sale shelf to help out one of the nine PBS comrades wishing for it.
The author, who enjoys considerable sales of other books for classroom use, knows this era well. He begins with a folksy prologue describing FDR's days of December 7th and 8th, 1941. "Franklin Roosevelt's Sunday morning began as most of his
Sundays began: with a cigarette and the Sunday papers in bed." Dr. Brands ends with Churchill seeing FDR off at their last meeting (Marrakech), in fact in robe and slippers accompanying FDR to the landing field and saying to US Vice Consul Pendar: "He is the truest friend; he has the farthest vision; he is the greatest man I've ever known."
There is a little bit of discussion of sources and virtually all the endnotes merely cite sources.
Bibliography, Index.
The author, who enjoys considerable sales of other books for classroom use, knows this era well. He begins with a folksy prologue describing FDR's days of December 7th and 8th, 1941. "Franklin Roosevelt's Sunday morning began as most of his
Sundays began: with a cigarette and the Sunday papers in bed." Dr. Brands ends with Churchill seeing FDR off at their last meeting (Marrakech), in fact in robe and slippers accompanying FDR to the landing field and saying to US Vice Consul Pendar: "He is the truest friend; he has the farthest vision; he is the greatest man I've ever known."
There is a little bit of discussion of sources and virtually all the endnotes merely cite sources.
Bibliography, Index.
