FDR
A New Political Life
Will be published approx. on 8. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-63770-069-3 (ISBN)
Description
David Beito's path-breaking new book brings to bear the latest historical scholarship to shed light on the life and achievements of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Professor Beito traces the irresistible political rise of Roosevelt, a scion of inherited wealth who never posed as a man of the people but was always perceived as a genial aristocrat. As well as eyebrow-raising disclosures on FDR's private life, Beito's gripping narrative brings out Roosevelt's ruthless opportunism, and his susceptibility to all the prejudicial views fashionable at the time, on race, sex, nationalism, and economics.
Professor Beito traces the irresistible political rise of Roosevelt, a scion of inherited wealth who never posed as a man of the people but was always perceived as a genial aristocrat. As well as eyebrow-raising disclosures on FDR's private life, Beito's gripping narrative brings out Roosevelt's ruthless opportunism, and his susceptibility to all the prejudicial views fashionable at the time, on race, sex, nationalism, and economics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Carus Books
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63770-069-3 (9781637700693)
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David T. Beito is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama. He is author of The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (2023), T.R.M. Howard (biography of the civil rights pioneer, 2018), and Taxpayers in Revolt (1989, on tax resistance in the 1930s), as well as numerous scholarly and popular articles.