Before The Trumpet

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Before the Trumpet

Before the Trumpet
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : 9780804173346
ISBN-13 : 0804173346
Rating : 4/5 (346 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Before the Trumpet by : Geoffrey C. Ward

Download or read book Before the Trumpet written by Geoffrey C. Ward and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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