![]() Discussion of President Roosevelt’s domestic agenda (with the New Deal as its key component) is clear, thorough and well-balanced. His two-term gubernatorial career, however, is surprisingly under-covered. It is organized into three major sections and its 824 pages leave no major aspect of Roosevelt’s life unexplored – but it focuses on the various phases of his life with different levels of intensity.Ĭoverage of Roosevelt’s early years and pre-presidency is solid (but not exceptional) and Brands provides more background on FDR’s retreat at Warm Springs than I’ve encountered elsewhere. This lengthy single-volume biography of FDR is detailed, comprehensive and magisterial. ![]() His most recent biography “ Reagan: The Life” was published in 2015. Brands is a professor at the University of Texas and the author of more than two dozen books (including six presidential biographies). Brands’s 2008 biography of FDR and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. ![]() “ Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt” is H.W. ![]()
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