FDR: The War President, 1940-1943 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenneth S. Davis
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: November, 1940, through December, 1942
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, George C. Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Donald M. Nelson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, 1940’s, World War II, Presidents
- Locales: United States
The era of World War II seems more distant with every passing year. In a precomputer age, it took a half dozen secretarial staff members working furiously to make ready-for-delivery Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat of September 7, 1942, the first anniversary of matriarch Sara Delano Roosevelt’s death. The subject of the speech: economic stabilization policies that would require sacrifice to stave off inflation and boost production efforts.
[Bill] Hassett and [Grace] Tully took the marked-up seventh draft and carbon copies of the sixth draft into the [Hyde Park]...
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