Churchill, Roosevelt  Company, Lewis E. Lehrman
Churchill, Roosevelt  Company, Lewis E. Lehrman
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Churchill, Roosevelt & Company
Studies in Character and Statecraft

Author: Lewis E. Lehrman

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Unabridged: 15 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/29/2018


Synopsis

During World War II the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war. But the ultimate victory of that partnership has obscured many of the conflicts behind Franklin Roosevelt's grins and Winston Churchill's victory signs, the clashes of principles and especially personalities between and within the two nations.

Synthesizing an impressive variety of sources, from memoirs and letters to histories and biographies, Lewis Lehrman explains how the Anglo-American alliance worked—and occasionally did not work—by presenting portraits and case studies of the men who worked the back channels and back rooms, the secretaries and under secretaries, ambassadors and ministers, responsible for carrying out Roosevelt's and Churchill's agendas while also pursuing their own and thwarting others'. This was the domain of Joseph Kennedy, American ambassador to England often at odds with his boss; spymasters William Donovan and William Stephenson; Secretary of State Cordell Hull, whom FDR frequently bypassed in favor of Under Secretary Sumner Welles; British ambassadors Lord Lothian and Lord Halifax; and, above them all, Roosevelt and Churchill, who had the difficult task, not always well performed, of managing their subordinates and who frequently chose to conduct foreign policy directly between themselves. Scrupulous in its research and fair in its judgments, Lehrman's book reveals the personal diplomacy at the core of the Anglo-American alliance.

About Lewis E. Lehrman

Lewis E. Lehrman received the National Humanities Medal for his work in American history. He has written for the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Harper's, The Churchill Project at Hillsdale College. His books include Lincoln at Peoria and Churchill, Roosevelt & Company. His other work in history includes cofounding the esteemed Lincoln Prize for Civil War scholarship, the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, and the Gilder Lehrman Collection at the New-York Historical Society. A graduate of Yale and Harvard, Lehrman has been awarded honorary degrees from Babson College, Gettysburg College, Lincoln College, Marymount University, and Thomas Aquinas College. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben

Outstanding study and account of two powerful leaders during World War II and key staff members and military advisors who served alongside them. (A longer review is forthcoming.)......more

Goodreads review by Joseph

Rather dry even for WWII history, I didn't get much new knowledge from this book. The author took the approach of dividing the book into a series of character sketches and I didn't much care for this style. Also, the author quoted a ton of other historians without really tying them into the narrativ......more

Goodreads review by Charles

Compendium of Wikipedia Entries with Too Few Engaging Insights Chapter by chapter, author Lewis Lehrman provides a portrayal of some 16 individuals close to FDR and Churchill during World War II. For Roosevelt, these included Harry Hopkins, Averill Harriman, Edward Stettinius, and Henry Morgenthau, i......more

Goodreads review by Brian

In his book, Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft, Lewis E. Lehrman has given us a masterful accounting of the complex personalities at the pinnacle of the allied Second World War partnership. Lehrman’s study is extraordinarily nuanced and exhaustively supported by the......more