The wars of the Roosevelts : [the ruthless rise of America's greatest political family]

The Resource The wars of the Roosevelts : [the ruthless rise of America's greatest political family]
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The wars of the Roosevelts : [the ruthless rise of America's greatest political family]
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[the ruthless rise of America's greatest political family]
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William J. Mann
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eng
Summary
  • A provocative biography of the Roosevelt family draws on family secrets and complex rivalries to argue that the Roosevelts' rise to power was driven by a series of inside competitions that were witnessed firsthand by an increasingly begrudging Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent 'illegitimate' branch of the family, William J. Mann paints an elegant, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking group portrait of this legendary family. Mann argues that the Roosevelts' rise to power and prestige was actually driven by a series of intense personal contest that at times devolved into blood sport. His compelling and eye-opening masterwork is the story of a family at war with itself, of social Darwinism at its most ruthless, in which the strong devoured the weak and repudiated the inconvenient
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BLACP
Dewey number
  • 973.91092/2
  • 929.20973
  • B
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not applicable
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LC call number
CD3029.5.R66
LC item number
M36 2016ab
Literary text for sound recordings
biography
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Read by Christopher Grove
Target audience
general
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