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Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black ISBN: 1-58648-184-3 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Needed update
Comment: It is high time a new biography of FDR be printed, and why not have it be written by a Canadian. This excellent, lengthy, biography deals with FDR in all his greatness. The authors main point is the FDR saved the world, capitalism and America. FDR made many firsts. He was the first president in a wheel chair. He was the most traveled president up to that time(Coolidge, president from 1924-1928 had never even left the United States). FDR was deeply involved in building the atom bomb, which he wanted to use against Germany. FDR's Wife Eleanor was to become an icon for feminism and women's rights as well as a champion of minorities. FDR was the first president to serve four terms. And he beat the depression and won a World War(although he didn't live to see its conclusion). This book more then does him justice. It is important to learn of the internationalism of FDR in this time of terror. FDR was the ultimate activist in foreign policy, pushing America relentlessly towards war. He actively supported England, the special relationship, and ensured war with Japan due to an oil embargo. Although accused of looking the other way to warnings of pearl harbor, FDR was quick to arrange a token revenge mission, ordering Doolittle to bomb Tokyo and ditch his planes in China.
This book rightly claims that FDR, next to Lincoln, was the great savior of the nation. The title evokes the 'Four Freedoms' of Rockwell; freedom from hunger, freedom from fear, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. An excellent account and a necessary update on this greatest of American presidents.
Rating: 5
Summary: Black: Champion of FDR
Comment: Here in his native Canada Conrad Black is famous - or notorious - for being a foaming-at-the-mouth right wing fanatic whose voice is much bigger than his wallet. Like Donald Trump he loves the limelight. So it came as a bit of a surprise to find him defending, indeed praising, FDR in this bulky book. But then I said Conrad Black loves attention, right?
I happen to think his heart is in the right place this time, whatever his personal motives. After all, FDR saved not just democracy but capitalism itself. The idea that FDR did well out of his bargain with Stalin might shock some conservatives. But there is really nothing really wrong with this one either: What else could he or anyone else have done with Stalin's Red Army, which after all got to Berlin first? No Russian leader in his right mind - let alone a monster like Stalin - would have left Eastern Europe without a fight, which is why Tsar Alexander paid for his mistake with his life. FDR was wise to leave Uncle Joe alone for the time being, as Black makes clear.
Not a bad book after all.
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Title: Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham ISBN: 0375505008 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek ISBN: 0316172383 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt : (The American Presidents Series) by Roy Jenkins ISBN: 0805069593 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman ISBN: 0393051447 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt by John Q. Barrett, William E. Leuchtenburg, Robert Houghwout Jackson ISBN: 0195168267 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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