A First-class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt

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HarperPerennial, 1989 - Biography & Autobiography - 889 pages
Drawing upon thousands of original documents as well as interviews with Roosevelt family members and others who knew Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt intimately, this book provides a vivid, unsentimental, sometimes startling biography of the young lawyer who became our thirty-second president.

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THE END OF ALGONAC
1
THE WONDERFUL HUSBAND
10
MR FRANKLIN
39
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Geoffrey C. Ward is an author, historian, and screenwriter. He has written for numerous documentary films, and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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