Ken Burns' The Roosevelts - Favorite Book on FDR
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1suburbguy
I just finished watching Ken Burns' The Roosevelts, and I started to think about my favorite book or book series featuring FDR.
I still prefer Kenneth Davis' incomplete, multivolume book series on FDR, including FDR: Into the Storm 1937-1940 and FDR: The War President, 1940-1943: A History.
Some alternative choices:
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II by Thomas Fleming
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph Persico
No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War by David Kaiser
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 by Nigel Hamilton
FDR by Jean Edward Smith
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War by Warren Kimball
What is your favorite FDR book?
I still prefer Kenneth Davis' incomplete, multivolume book series on FDR, including FDR: Into the Storm 1937-1940 and FDR: The War President, 1940-1943: A History.
Some alternative choices:
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II by Thomas Fleming
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph Persico
No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War by David Kaiser
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942 by Nigel Hamilton
FDR by Jean Edward Smith
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War by Warren Kimball
What is your favorite FDR book?
3Jestak
My first choice for a single-volume biography of FDR would probably be Traitor to His Class by H. W. Brands.
Although it's dated, and it's more about the New Deal years than the war years, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s three-volume "The Age of Roosevelt" series--The Crisis of the Old Order, The Coming of the New Deal, and The Politics of Upheaval is still valuable reading.
Finally, I will give an enthusiastic second to the Eric Larrabee volume recommended by Ammianus, which is outstanding on Roosevelt's record as a war leader.
Although it's dated, and it's more about the New Deal years than the war years, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s three-volume "The Age of Roosevelt" series--The Crisis of the Old Order, The Coming of the New Deal, and The Politics of Upheaval is still valuable reading.
Finally, I will give an enthusiastic second to the Eric Larrabee volume recommended by Ammianus, which is outstanding on Roosevelt's record as a war leader.
4rocketjk
#1> Like you, I enjoyed, Roosevelt's Secret War. But my favorite FDR book is the voluminous Roosevelt and Hopkins: an Intimate History by Robert E. Sherwood. Sherwood was himself in Roosevelt's wartime White House, so the perspective is quite interesting.
5jztemple
I just finished watching the Ken Burns series (it's been sitting on the DVR) and I was motivated to pick up Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905 and A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt both by Geoffrey C. Ward.
