In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama
- ISBN-10
- 0801475686
- ISBN-13
- 9780801475689
- Series
- In the Shadow of FDR
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 434
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- William E. Leuchtenburg
Description
A stimulating and original survey of the political impact of FDR's image on his successors in the White House.--Foreign Affairs
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- 2011-03-15
- 456 pages
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- 2001
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