Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerald W. Johnson
- First Published: 1967
- Time of Work: 1882–1945
- Setting: Hyde Park and Albany, New York; Washington, D.C.; Casablanca, Morocco; Cairo, Egypt; Quebec, Canada; Yalta, Soviet Union; and Warm Springs, Georgia
- Principal Characters: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Spencer Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Louis McHenry Howe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred Emmanuel Smith, Joseph Stalin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Leadership, World War II, Depression, economic, Politicians, Sick persons, Presidents, Biography, Polio, Governors
- Locales: New York, Soviet Union, Washington, D.C., Quebec, Canada, Yalta, Ukraine, Cairo, Egypt, Casablanca, Morocco, Warm Springs, GA
Form and Content
In this largely uncritical—yet, within its bounds, accurate—narrative, veteran newsperson and author Gerald W. Johnson acknowledges that, like most people, Roosevelt usually acted as events dictated. Johnson’s emphasis in Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Portrait of a Great Man, however, is upon those events in which Roosevelt’s character primarily determined his actions and, in effect, forged his greatness.
Despite suggestions that the book might be episodic, its eighteen chapters proceed chronologically. Readers are further informed by thirty...
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