The Roosevelts: An Intimate History [Hardcover]

Description: Product Description New York Times Bestseller A vivid and personal portrait of America’s greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation, which expands on the hugely acclaimed seven-part PBS documentary series, bringing readers even deeper into these extraordinary leaders’ lives With 796 photographs, some never before seen The authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, The War, and Baseball present an intimate history of three extraordinary individuals from the same extraordinary family—Theodore, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts, and the acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns help us understand for the first time that, despite the fierce partisanship of their eras, the Roosevelts were far more united than divided. All the history the Roosevelts made is here, but this is primarily an intimate account, the story of three people who overcame obstacles that would have undone less forceful personalities. Theodore Roosevelt would push past childhood frailty, outpace depression, survive terrible grief—and transform the office of the presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt, orphaned and alone as a child, would endure her husband’s betrayal, battle her own self-doubts, and remake herself into the most consequential first lady in American history—and the most admired woman on earth. And Franklin Roosevelt, born to privilege and so pampered that most of his youthful contemporaries dismissed him as a charming lightweight, would summon the strength to lead the nation through the two greatest crises since the Civil War, though he could not take a single step unaided. The three were towering personalities, but The Roosevelts shows that they were also flawed human beings who confronted in their personal lives issues familiar to all of us: anger and the need for forgiveness, courage and cowardice, confidence and self-doubt, loyalty to family and the need to be true to oneself. This is the story of the Roosevelts—no other American family ever touched so many lives. From Booklist *Starred Review* The name Ken Burns will be familiar to many readers and television viewers. He is an award-winning producer and director of documentary films. Not surprisingly, then, this oversize, completely engaging book, of which he is coauthor, is a tie-in volume to a PBS documentary to air in fall 2014. (The other author, Geoffrey C. Ward, doesn’t take a backseat here; he is the author of the award-winning A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1989.) Tacking a course that supports the adage that in adversity comes strength, the authors profile, in a well-woven narrative, the lives and careers of Teddy Roosevelt, his cousin Franklin, and Franklin’s wife, Eleanor (who was also Teddy’s niece). Without having to overstate any fact or situation, the authors establish that these three distinguished individuals made significant differences in the political and social fabric of the country, such that their footprints remain indelible in U.S. history. Teddy’s early ill-health, FDR’s polio, and Eleanor’s lack of confidence, especially in the face of her husband’s infidelity, resulted in their individual drives to succeed as well as in the compelling nature of their life stories. --Brad Hooper Review Praise for The Roosevelts: An Intimate History by Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns“Ken Burns is America’s premier storyteller . . . Burns and Ward not only introduce us to the diverse projects and achievements of the New Deal. They also highlight FDR’s Four Freedoms and Second Bill of Rights speeches. Moreover, filling out the experience of the series, the coffee-table-sized companion volume that they have put together—replete with photographs and illustrations drawn from the series—is a true companion to the documentary. So, after you've watched nearly 14 hours of The Roosevelts on your local PBS channel

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