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Before the Trumpet:Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905
[Paperback - 2014]
geoffrey c. ward
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Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780804173339 | Pages: 432
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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 opium smuggler and a pious headmaster; Franklin's distant cousin, Theodore and his remarkable mother, Sara; and the still-more remarkable young woman he wooed and won, his cousin Eleanor. This is a tale that would grip the reader even if its central character had not grown up to be FDR.

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.

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