Before the Trumpet
Author: Ward, Geoffrey C.
ISBN: 9780804173339
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 09 Sep 2014
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
From revered and award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward, an astonishing, novelistic account--the most complete to date--of the early life and lineage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. B>First time in Vintage trade paperback./B>BR>BR>i>/i>br>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 i>Before the Trumpet, /i>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.
ISBN: 9780804173339
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 09 Sep 2014
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
From revered and award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward, an astonishing, novelistic account--the most complete to date--of the early life and lineage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. B>First time in Vintage trade paperback./B>BR>BR>i>/i>br>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 i>Before the Trumpet, /i>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.
