Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley - Hardcover

Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Suckley, Margaret; Ward, Geoffrey C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395660807 ISBN 13: 9780395660805

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1995

Synopsis

The author draws on the recently discovered letters and diaries of FDR's sixth cousin, Margaret Lynch Suckley, one of the president's closest confidantes in the last decade of his life, to construct an illuminating account of the private Franklin Roosevelt.

About this title

Review:

"A serious contribution to history." -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

"A remarkable portrait of FDR and the personal crises he faced during his presidency....Offers invaluable insights into FDR the man and the leader." -- The Washington Post Book World

"A fascinating, very personal view of the man and his life." -- USA Today

"Engrossing.... Ward has made FDR's story something no one else has managed to do." -- Gore Vidal, The New York Review of Books

About the Author:

Geoffrey C. Ward is the bestselling author of two books about FDR--Before the Trumpet and A First-Class Temperament--and the coauthor (with Ken Burns) of The War, The Civil War, Jazz, and Baseball. The former editor of American Heritage magazine, he is the winner of many awards, including the Parkman Prize for history and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0395660807
• ISBN 13: 9780395660805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 16