
Before the Trumpet
Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905
Geoffrey C. Ward(Author)
Bantam Books (Publisher)
Published on 9. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-8041-7333-9 (ISBN)
Description
Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world. In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that world-Hyde Park on the Hudson and Campobello Island, Groton and Harvard and the Continent-to recreate as never before the formative years of the man who would become the 20th century's greatest president. Here, drawn from thousands of original documents (many never previously published), is a richly-detailed, intimate biography, its central figure surrounded by a colorful cast that includes an opium smuggler and a pious headmaster; Franklin's distant cousin, Theodore and his remarkable mother, Sara; and the still-more remarkable young woman he wooed and won, his cousin Eleanor. This is a tale that would grip the reader even if its central character had not grown up to be FDR.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
32 PP. B&W
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8041-7333-9 (9780804173339)
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09/2014
Vintage
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Person
Geoffrey C. Ward is the coauthor of The Civil War (with Ken Burns and Ric Burns), and the author of A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize.