PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A POLITICAL LIFE – ROBERT DALLEK

From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America s greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically objective and wide-angled … Roosevelt is with us again in Dallek s outstanding cradle-to-grave study Douglas Brinkley, Washington Post Assuredly the best single-volume Roosevelt biography Eric Rauchway, The Times Literary Supplement Essential … a master of the presidential biography captures Roosevelt s compassion and sense of solidarity Greg Grandin, Guardian An insightful, incisive and intelligent one-volume work – and a pointed primer on how things in Washington get done. In a period defined by division, Dallek crafts a pointillist portrait of the four-term president, who knew almost intuitively how to reach consensus Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday