FDR, Jean Edward Smith
FDR, Jean Edward Smith
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FDR

Author: Jean Edward Smith

Narrator: Marc Cashman

Unabridged: 32 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2007

Synopsis

One of today’s premier biographers, Jean Edward Smith, has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt’s restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace permitted him to master countless challenges throughout his life. Smith recounts FDR’s personal battles and also tackles head-on and in depth the numerous failures and miscues of Roosevelt’s political career.

Summing up Roosevelt’s legacy, Smith gives us the clearest picture yet of how this quintessential Knickerbocker aristocrat became the common man’s president. The result is a powerful account that adds fresh perspectives and draws profound conclusions about a man whose story is widely known but far less well understood. Written for the general public and scholars alike, FDR is a stunning biography in every way worthy of its subject.

About The Author

Jean Edward Smith is the author of the national bestseller Eisenhower in War and Peace; FDR, winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize; Grant, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist; John Marshall: Definer of a Nation; and Lucius D. Clay: An American Life. A member of the faculty at the University of Toronto for thirty-five years, and at Marshall University for twelve, he is currently a senior scholar in the history department at Columbia.Marc Cashman was named one of the “Best Voices of the Year” by AudioFile magazine. His voice can be heard on radio, television, film, and video games. Marc also instructs voice actors through his classes, The Cashman Cache of Voice-Acting Techniques, in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anthony on August 02, 2023

American Colossus. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt? How does posterity judge him? Was he a great man? These are all questions I asked of this huge figure of history before knowing much about him. So to correct some of my gaps in knowledge I turned to this book. Jean Edward Smith’s ‘FDR’ is one of t......more

Goodreads review by Peter on March 18, 2020

Seeking Solace from the Sakura and "FDR" I am typing this with one hand as our cat Muffin is sleeping in my lap. On Sundays I bike to the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., home to hundreds of Korean-Japanese cherry trees and several memorials. I usually loop by the Jefferson Memorial and then head on......more

Goodreads review by Tim on March 13, 2023

I loved Jean Edward Smith’s biography of Eisenhower, and I wasn’t disappointed here either. The book was incredibly fast paced. Nothing is covered in any depth. Some of the topics seemed almost comical to try to cover in one chapter of one book. Like all the New Deal legislation. It seemed like a mac......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on February 03, 2023

If you read only one biography of FDR, this should be it. Smith has a reputation for being the best biographer in recent times, and he proves why in this magnificent tome. He examines FDR, warts and all, and arrives at a picture that is worthy of the man. While dispelling the lies about the presiden......more

Goodreads review by Ammit P on July 23, 2024

5.0 ⭐ GENRE - HISTORY - POLITICS - NONFICTION. PAGES - 880 PAGES. The best presidential biography I have read so far!! A treat of a book, having read Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood, Barrack Obama, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Golda Meir this was by the most well written, easily understan......more

Awards

  • Francis Parkman Prize
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