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

Product Description
[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.]

[Read by Malcolm Hillgartner]

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 scandal quietly covered up. Ever indomitable, even polio a year later would not suppress his inevitable ascent.

Against the backdrop of a reluctant America's entry into a world war and FDR's hawkish build-up of a modern navy, Washington's gossip-ridden society, and the nation's surging economy, Weintraub summons up the early influences on the young and enterprising nephew of his predecessor,''Uncle Ted.''
Review
''An account of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first few years in politics . . . The book is largely an account of his activities during eight years as an energetic member of the Woodrow Wilson administration, during which he refined the skills and met the men (and a few women) who figured in his own presidency . . . A lively, insightful account of FDR's early years.'' --
Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
STANLEY WEINTRAUB is a National Book Award finalist and a former Guggenheim fellow. A professor emeritus of arts and humanities at Penn State University, he is the author of numerous histories and biographies, including
Silent Night and
11 Days in December, and is an expert on George Bernard Shaw. He lives in Newark, Delaware.