The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family
Language: English
Published by Harper & Brothers, 2016
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Type: Ex-Library First Edition First Printing Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Except for minimal library marks (2 tags on jacket, discard stamp on endpaper, lib stamp on top edge of text block--no cards, no pockets, no messy stamping), in Fine Condition--no defects, a clean, solidly bound book, pages clean, unmarked, no creases. Illustrated with Monotone photographs. A most readable account of the decades-long rivalries, grudges, and battles between and within the Roosevelt families of Oyster Bay and Hyde Park. 609 pages inc Archival Collections, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. 6.25 x 9.5 x 1.75 inches. 2016, Harper & Brothers, New York.
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- Title
- The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family
- Author
- Mann, William J.
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0062383337
- ISBN 13
- 9780062383334
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Seller catalogs
- History. United States, Biography. Autobiography., Politics & Government.
The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America’s greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair.
Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent "illegitimate" branch of the family, William J. Mann paints an elegant, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking group portrait of this legendary family. Mann argues that the Roosevelts’ rise to power and prestige was actually driven by a series of intense personal contest that at times devolved into blood sport. His compelling and eye-opening masterwork is the story of a family at war with itself, of social Darwinism at its most ruthless—in which the strong devoured the weak and repudiated the inconvenient.
Mann focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt, who, he argues, experienced this brutality firsthand, witnessing her Uncle Theodore cruelly destroy her father, Elliott—his brother and bitter rival—for political expediency. Mann presents a fascinating alternate picture of Eleanor, contending that this "worshipful niece" in fact bore a grudge against TR for the rest of her life, and dares to tell the truth about her intimate relationships without obfuscations, explanations, or labels.
Mann also brings into focus Eleanor’s cousins, TR’s children, whose stories propelled the family rivalry but have never before been fully chronicled, as well as her illegitimate half-brother, Elliott Roosevelt Mann, who inherited his family’s ambition and skill without their name and privilege. Growing up in poverty just miles from his wealthy relatives, Elliott Mann embodied the American Dream, rising to middle-class prosperity and enjoying one of the very few happy, long-term marriages in the Roosevelt saga. For the first time, The Wars of the Roosevelts also includes the stories of Elliott’s daughter and grandchildren, and never-before-seen photographs from their archives.
Deeply psychological and finely rendered, illustrated with sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs, The Wars of the Roosevelts illuminates not only the enviable strengths but also the profound shame of this remarkable and influential family.
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About the Author
William J. Mann is the New York Times bestselling author of The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando; Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn; How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood; Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand; Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines; and Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award. He divides his time between Connecticut and Cape Cod.
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