Young Mr. Roosevelt: Fdr's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life

by Stanley Weintraub

Book Overview

In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility in World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not his ambitions. While his stature was rising, his testy marriage to his cousin Eleanor was fraying amid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306821184
• ISBN13: 9780306821189
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"