Alonzo L. Hamby
No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama. He was a man of large personality and a president of vast and enduring accomplishments.,Yet, as the distinguished historian Alonzo Hamby argues, FDRâ€™s record as president was more mixed than we are often led to believe. Roosevelt was a great politician and war leader, but the New Deal, his most famous legacy, failed to achieve its goal of reviving the nationâ€™s economy, in no small measure because of FDRâ€™s hostility toward the business and financial communities.,Hamby is no less perceptive about FDRâ€™s private life. Drawing on overlooked sources, he documents the presidentâ€™s final months in intimate detail, claiming that his perseverance despite his serious illness must be counted as one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s great feats of endurance.,Man of Destiny, is a measured account of the life, both personal and public, of the most important American leader of the twentieth century.
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Man of Destiny: FDR and the Making of the American Century