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Persico, Joseph E.

Summary: Explains how Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the role of a hands-on wartime leader, discussing his contributions to military strategy and analyzing how his decisions may have helped end or prolonged the war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D PER

Persico, Joseph E.

Summary: Re-creates November 11, 1918, the final day of World War I, when Allied military commanders in search of glory and advancement flung men against an already beaten enemy, leading to eleven thousand casualties.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 PER

Persico, Joseph E.

Summary: In Franklin and Lucy, acclaimed author and historian Joseph E. Persico explores FDR's romance with Lucy Rutherfurd (which was far deeper and lasted much longer than was previously acknowledged). Persico also shows how FDR's infidelity as a husband contributed to Eleanor's eventual transformation from a repressed Victorian to perhaps the greatest American woman of her century; how the shaping...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 PER

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