Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905
- ISBN-10
- 0804173338
- ISBN-13
- 9780804173339
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 434
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-09
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Geoffrey C. Ward
Description
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 Before the Trumpet, 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.
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