About this title: In this superlative volume, Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to provide an engrossing narrative of one of America's greatest presidents.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781400061211ISBN:1400061210
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex) Library Copy. Moderate wear on Cover/Interior Pages. Usual library markings. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 858 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2008-05-13
ISBN-13:9780812970494ISBN:0812970497
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780812970494. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780812970494ISBN:0812970497
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN-13:9781400061211ISBN:1400061210
Description: Very Good. Spine intact with a bit of looseness. Covers with moderate shelf wear-dust jacket with moderate shelf wear. Pages clean and intact! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781400061211ISBN:1400061210
Description: New in new dust jacket. DJ and pages in mint condition, gift quality! Not a remainder. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 858 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN-13:9780739343449ISBN:0739343440
Description: NEW. Spoken Word Compact Disc. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780739343449. read more
Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780739343449ISBN:0739343440
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN-13:9781400061211ISBN:1400061210
Description: New. New, unread hardcover book with small publisher's inventory dot on bottom. We ship 6 days a week, generally within 24 hours; single CDs and DVDs upgraded to 1st class! read more
Description: Reader copy; Collectible. By Jean Edward Smith; ISBN: 1400061210; Pub. : Random House; Pub. Date: 2007-05-15; Media: Hardcover; Weight: 48 oz.; FIRST EDITION with complete number list. Book is misshapen due to storage. DJ shows minor wear. Pages are clean and binding is tight. by Jean Edward Smith; ISBN: 1400061210; Pub. : Random House; Pub. Date: 2007-05-15; Media: Hardcover; Weight: 48 oz.; FIRST EDITION with complete number list. Book is misshapen due to storage. DJ shows minor wear. Pages ... read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 5/15/2007
ISBN-13:9781400061211ISBN:1400061210
Description: Good. 1400061210 Ex-library book with usual markings. Clean text. SATISF GNTD + SHIPS W/IN 24 HRS. Sorry, no APO deliveries. Ships in a padded envelope with free tracking. 47, 633r. read more
"It is a very interesting book on the life of our greatest President (in my opinion!). It's a bit slow at first, but starts to pick up toward the middle. It is a very long book and not an easy read. There are a lot of names in the book which can get confusing."
"Yippee ... I finished 27 + hours of listening ... Parts were great ... parts were too detailed and not interesting. I was looking for another "John Adams" and this was not it. I did learn much about history and that is always a good thing."
"Excellent biography for the general reader. There have been many books on Roosevelt recently, several about his relationship with Churchill specifically, but not a complete biography. Smith sees Roosevelt as, with Washington and Lincoln, in the top echelon of influential American presidents and her book is intended to show why. But she is also sensitive to his faults and doesn't hesitate to condemn a number of his actions and attitudes, not the least of which was his attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court by mandating another justice for every justice who turned 70. The reader has a sense of a factual and balanced view of an extraordinary man. This isn't a biography with startlingly new information. I've read a lot of books about Roosevelt and a lot of histories in which Roosevelt figures prominently and was surprised by nothing but still delighted with the book because of Smith's ability to analyze Roosevelt's attitudes and actions in detail, free of political and popular bias. The one section of the book that seemed to me particularly good was her analysis of the build up to the attack on Pearl Harbor which revisionist historians recently have construed to suggest that Roosevelt deliberately allowed to happen in order to have an excuse for the US to enter the war. Certainly Roosevelt saw that necessity before the country as a whole was willing to abandon its isolationism, but after reading Smith's account I'm convinced that the revisionist's were wrong about Roosevelt. One particularly interesting facet was the attempt of Ambassador Joseph C. Grew to broker a rapprochement with Japan through the Japanese prime minister who did not want war but who was facing an ever-more-militant party within the government. Grew cabled the prime minister's offer of talks to Roosevelt, but Roosevelt was in Placentia Bay at the time meeting with Churchill and drafting what became the Atlantic Charter. Evidently Grew's cable was dealt with by more militant and anti-Japanese elements within the State Department. Smith devoted more attention to the New Deal, both its successes and its failures, than to WWII which seemed odd to me, but after all, those years constituted a larger proportion of FDR's presidency and the war years have been covered so thoroughly in the recent spate of books on WWII and Roosevelt's role and influence. I was particularly convinced of Roosevelt's power as a politician and leader when Smith showed how his positive attitude and ability to communicate with all Americans appealed to the people who had heard nothing but doom and gloom from Hoover who was not an inspiring communicator. In fact, with the US facing a Presidential choice at this time, it reminds me that sometimes the ability to communicate a vision is the most important job of a national leader.
This book clarified in my mind that Obama was the one to support in 2009."
"A well-balanced and informative biography of FDR, this book focused both on his triumphs and failures. I learned a lot I didn't know - about his political aspirations to be president early in life, about the 15 pieces of legislation passed in his first 100 days to bring the country out of the Great Depression, about the 'Roosevelt' recession caused by him cutting federal spending after the country rebounded from the first recession, about his reluctance and preparedness for getting into WWII and his hands off commander-in-chief approach to war. But it just wasn't that great of a book, maybe I got bogged down with details and names, or maybe I just don't like political biographies."
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