I always try to be as generous as possible to a fellow biographer of the same subject, but I cannot claim that this book brings much that is new to the extensive FDR literature. It is in fact a ...

For all the books written about FDR, there's room on the shelf for a great one-volume life that does full justice to who he was, what he overcame and what he achieved. This one isn't it, though it's ...

In the skillful writing of biographer Nigel Hamilton, history is a living thing, something you can see and hear, reach out and touch. History has an immediacy for him that has come to life in more ...

(“FDR” by Jean Edward Smith, Random House, 858 pages, $35). In January 1943, after meeting with Franklin Roosevelt at Casablanca on the African coast to plot future military operations during the ...

FDR is more relevant now than ever, with the economic and international challenges America faces and a liberal Democrat in the White House, so any new biography of the most consequential 20th century ...

Editor's note: This is the 32nd entry in the writer's project to read one book about each of the U.S. Presidents in the year prior to Election Day 2016. Follow Marcus' progress at the @44in52 Twitter ...

The most critically acclaimed biography published so far this year is "Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage" (Free Press, $30). Douglas Waller, a former ...

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