A First-Class Temperament:the Emergence Of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905-1928

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A First-Class Temperament:the Emergence Of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905-1928

[Paperback - 2014]

geoffrey c. ward

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Category: Bio & Autobiography

Sub-category: Biography & Autobiography - Political

Additional Category: North American History

Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780804173353 | Pages: 944

Shipping Weight: .864 | Dimensions: 5.22 x 1.88 x 7.98 inches

Description

In this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the brink of the presidency with a richness of detail and vivid sense of time, place, and personality usually found only in fiction.

In these pages, FDR comes alive as a fond but absent father and an often unfeeling husband--the story of Eleanor Roosevelt’s struggle to build a life independent of him is chronicled in full–as well as a charming but pampered patrician trying to find his way in the sweaty world of everyday politics and all-too willing willing to abandon allies and jettison principle if he thinks it will help him move up the political ladder. But somehow he also finds within himself the courage and resourcefulness to come back from a paralysis that would have crushed a less resilient man and then go on to meet and master the two gravest crises of his time.

About the Author

Geoffrey Champion Ward is an author and screenwriter of various documentary presentations of American history. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1962.He was an editor ofAmerican Heritagemagazine early in his career. He wrote the television mini-seriesThe Civil Warwith its director Ken Burns and has collaborated with Burns on every documentary he has made since, includingJazzandBaseball. This work won him five Emmy Awards. The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration,The War, premiered on PBS in September 2007. In addition he co-wroteThe West, of which Ken Burns was an executive producer, with fellow historian Dayton Duncan.