Franklin and Winston: A Portrait of a Friendship - Hardcover

Meacham, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862077150 ISBN 13: 9781862077157

Publisher: Granta Books, 2004

Synopsis

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of 'the Greatest Generation'. In Franklin and Winston, Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in the Second World War. It was a crucial and unique friendship: a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park and Casablanca, talking to each other of war, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Meacham's new sources, including unpublished letters of Roosevelt's great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few survivors who were in Roosevelt's and Churchill's joint company, shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle. Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

About this title

Review:

'Elegantly written and easy to read. The pages turn themselves... a fascinating book' -- The British Army Review

'Most complete portrait yet of the complex and emotional connection between the two world leaders' -- Bookseller

‘His book is a human story, vividly told’ -- The Sunday Telegraph

‘Meacham's engaging account argues that personal bonds between leaders are crucial to international politics’ -- The New Yorker

About the Author:

Jon Meacham was born in 1969 and is the managing editor of Newsweek. He is the editor of Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement and lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1862077150
• ISBN 13: 9781862077157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512