FRANKLIN AND WINSTON / An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Meacham, Jon

ISBN 10: 0375505008 / ISBN 13: 9780375505003

Published by Random House, New York, 2003

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First edition, first printing, hardcover. Black spine/boards with gilt titles. xx, 490 pages. B&W photos. Appendix: Their Days and Nights: A Summary of the Roosevelt-Churchill Meetings, 1941-1945; author's notes and acknowledgments, source notes, bibliography, photography credits, permission acknowledgments, index. Near fine with tail of spine pushed, in a near fine mylar-covered dust jacket with light weat to bottom edge at spine and light rubbing to rear panel. Seller Inventory # 140593

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Title: FRANKLIN AND WINSTON / An Intimate Portrait ...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this "beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham "paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and [Winston] Churchill" (Vanity Fair).

"Intense and compelling reading."--The Washington Post

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II.

Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics in their own nations--yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR's affections--which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides--and Winston Churchill.

Meacham's sources--including unpublished letters of FDR' s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with people who were in FDR and Churchill's joint company--shed light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.

Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

About the Author:

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. The author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.