Young Mr. Roosevelt, Stanley Weintraub
Young Mr. Roosevelt, Stanley Weintraub
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Young Mr. Roosevelt
FDRs Introduction to War, Politics, and Life

Author: Stanley Weintraub

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2013

Synopsis

In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelts political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility during World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not his ambitions. While his stature was rising, his testy marriage to his cousin Eleanor was fraying amid scandal quietly covered up. Even polio a year later would not suppress the ever indomitable Roosevelt and his inevitable ascent. Against the backdrop of a reluctant Americas entry into a world war and FDRs hawkish build-up of a modern navy, Washingtons gossip-ridden society, and the nations surging economy, Weintraub summons up the early influences on the young and enterprising nephew of his predecessor, Uncle Ted.

About Stanley Weintraub

Stanley Weintraub is a historian, biographer, and professor emeritus of arts and humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of fifty books, including Silent Night and General Washington's Christmas. He lives with his wife in Newark, Delaware.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rikki

This is a book for enthusiasts of politico/military history. Much has been written about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's later years. He was arguably the greatest statesman America ever produced, but not too much is known of his earlier history. This well researched account helps to fill in the gap A nep......more

Goodreads review by Jim

This book is a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and covers his time as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in the main (though the pre-assistantship period was was covered in a potted way, as was the run up to his failed Vice Presidential bid). The author picked this period, because when he inte......more

Goodreads review by Bfisher

This book concentrates on 8 years in FDR's life, when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson administration. After reading it, I understood how critical this period was in preparing him for Governor of New York, and then the Presidency during the depths of the Great Depression, the......more

Goodreads review by Laura

I only recommend this to folks with an academic or deep personal interest in Franklin D. Roosevelt. Very dense, detailed biography of his years as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson administration with insights into professional and personal concerns of FDR and his wife Eleanor.......more

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