Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905

Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905

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Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world.Â In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that worldâ€”Hyde Park on the Hudson and Campobello Island, Groton and Harvard and the Continentâ€”to recreate as never before the formative years of the man who would become the 20th centuryâ€™s greatest president. Here, drawn from thousands of original documents (many never previously published), is a richly-detailed, intimate biography, its central figure surrounded by a colorful cast that includes an opium smuggler and a pious headmaster; Franklin's distant cousin, Theodore and his remarkable mother, Sara;Â and the still-more remarkable young woman he wooed and won, his cousin Eleanor. This is a tale that would grip the reader even if its central character had not grown up to be FDR.

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	0804173338_used
Color	White
IsAdultProduct
Height	7.95274
Length	5.23621
Weight	0.83334735036
Width	0.90551
ReleaseDate	2014-09-09
NumberOfItems	1

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