The Roosevelts : an intimate history
(Adult Book)

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xii, 503 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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English

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Includes index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A vivid and personal portrait of Americas greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation-the companion volume to the seven-part PBS documentary series With 796 photographs, some never before seen The authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, The War, and Baseball present an intimate history of three extraordinary individuals from the same extraordinary family-Theodore, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts, and the acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns help us understand for the first time that, despite the fierce partisanship of their eras, the Roosevelts were far more united than divided.All the history the Roosevelts made is here, but this is primarily an intimate account, the story of three people who overcame obstacles that would have undone less forceful personalities.Theodore Roosevelt would push past childhood frailty, outpace depression, survive terrible grief-and transform the office of the presidency.Eleanor Roosevelt, orphaned and alone as a child, would endure her husbands betrayal, battle her own self-doubts, and remake herself into the most consequential first lady in American history-and the most admired woman on earth.And Franklin Roosevelt, born to privilege and so pampered that most of his youthful contemporaries dismissed him as a charming lightweight, would summon the strength to lead the nation through the two greatest crises since the Civil War, though he could not take a single step unaided.The three were towering personalities, but The Roosevelts shows that they were also flawed human beings who confronted in their personal lives issues familiar to all of us: anger and the need for forgiveness, courage and cowardice, confidence and self-doubt, loyalty to family and the need to be true to oneself. This is the story of the Roosevelts-no other American family ever touched so many lives.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ward, G. C., & Burns, K. (2014). The Roosevelts: an intimate history . Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ward, Geoffrey C and Ken Burns. 2014. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ward, Geoffrey C and Ken Burns. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

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