“Traitor to His Class” by H.W.Brands

A detailed account of FDR’s life and times. It covers FDR’s personal life (his relationships with his mother, wife and mistress),  his apprenticeship in politics under Woodrow Wilson, whose internationalist idealism inspired FDR to lay down the foundation for the United Nations, his fight against polio, his economic policies emphasizing government regulation and intervention (the New Deal) during the Depression, and  his international leadership in forming an alliance with Churchill […]

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