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Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Presidents United States Biography Presidents' spouses United States Biography Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 United States United States Foreign relations Great Britain United States Politics and government 1933-1945 World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history World War, 1939-1945 United StatesLelyveld, Joseph
Summary: "Untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax"--Dust jacket flap. "'By far the most enigmatic leading figure' of World War II. That's how the British military historian John Keegan described Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN LELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT LELGroom, Winston
Summary: "In this exciting, meticulously researched narrative, best-selling author and historian Winston Groom returns to tell one of the most monumental stories of the twentieth century. It is the tale of three remarkably different men, joined in a mission to end World War II and restore order. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin redefined a generation and transformed its political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 GROJackson, Robert H.
Summary: "Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still-revered Supreme Court Justice, and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir." "Written with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. JACSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PREWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation--the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROOSEVELT FAMILY WARRowley, Hazel.
Summary: Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention--private and public--that kept FDR and Eleanor together. She reveals a partnership that was both supportive and daring--a partnership that they created according to their own ambitions and needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN & ELEANOR ROWTobin, James
Summary: "With a searching new analysis of primary sources, NBCC award winner James Tobin reveals how FDR's fight against polio transformed him from a callow aristocrat into the energetic, determined statesman who would rally the nation in the Great Depression and lead it through World War II. When polio paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt at thirty-nine, people wept to think that the young man of golden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D TOBWeintraub, Stanley
Summary: In "Young Mr. Roosevelt" Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility in World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not his ambitions. While his stature was rising, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D WEIBerthon, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BERBrinkley, Douglas
Summary: Douglas Brinkley's Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision. Now Brinkley turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader--Theodore's distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt--chronicling his essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the premier protector of America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 BRIButler, Susan
Summary: Draws on newly unclassified files to examine the relationship between the two world leaders, revealing FDR's methodical role in the reintroduction of religion in the Soviet Union and the related influence of J. Edgar Hoover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BUTConradi, Peter.
Summary: Between June 9th and 12th 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the guests of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his country estate in Hyde Park, New York, during what was the first ever visit by a reigning British monarch to the United States. Coming at a time when Britain desperately needed U.S. help in the conflict that now seemed inevitable, the meeting was front page news on both sides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 CONFullilove, Michael
Summary: Documents the lesser-known role of the President and five influential diplomats in overturning American isolationist beliefs and pulling the country into World War II, citing the reports that led to America's support of Great Britain and Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D FULGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: The United States of 1940, an isolationist country divided along class lines, still suffering the ravages of a decade-long depression, and woefully unprepared for war, was unified by a common threat and by the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world. At the center of the country's transformation was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GOOHamilton, Nigel.
Summary: A close-up, in-the-room look at how FDR took masterful command and control of the Second World War, from wresting key decisions away from Churchill and his own generals, to launching the first successful trial landing in North Africa, and beginning to turn the tide away from the Axis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2014
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Summary: David McCullough relates a compelling story about the spirit of Christmas and the power of light in difficult, dangerous times. As war raged throughout the world, two leaders-- Roosevelt and Churchill-- delivered a powerful message that still resonates today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 MCCRobinson, Greg
Summary: On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes, and their incarceration under guard in camps. Amid the numerous histories of this shameful event, FDR's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ROBBeschloss, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5314 BESFlynn, John T. (John Thomas)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox & Wilkes 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 FLYGray, Charlotte
Summary: "The stories of Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome, before and after birthing their sons, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, consecutively."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRAHamilton, Nigel
Summary: "Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful--and under appreciated--command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House Oval Study--his personal command center--and into the meetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN HAMKimball, Warren F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5322 KIMNelson, Craig
Summary: "New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy" that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America's military was unprepared, too small,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023