The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942 – An Acclaimed Biography of Presidential Leadership in World War II - Softcover

Hamilton, Nigel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0544227840 ISBN 13: 9780544227842

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2015

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Longlisted for the National Book Award

“This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt.”

—Christian Science Monitor

“Masterly.”

—Wall Street Journal

A dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II

Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, The Mantle of Command offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s masterful — and underappreciated — leadership of the Allied war effort. After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton’s account drives toward Operation Torch — the invasion of French Northwest Africa — and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. The Mantle of Command is an intimate, sweeping look at a great President in history’s greatest conflict.

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NIGEL HAMILTON is a best-selling and award-winning biographer of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard “Monty” Montgomery, and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. He is a senior fellow in the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and first president of the Biographers International Organization.

 

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“This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt.” — Christian Science Monitor
“Masterly.” — Wall Street Journal

A dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II

Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, The Mantle of Command offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s masterful — and underappreciated — leadership of the Allied war effort. After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton’s account drives toward Operation Torch — the invasion of French Northwest Africa — and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. The Mantle of Command is an intimate, sweeping look at a great President in history’s greatest conflict.
 
[Author photo] © Frank Monkiewicz

NIGEL HAMILTON is a best-selling and award-winning biographer of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard “Monty” Montgomery, and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was the first president of the Biographers International Organization.

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• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0544227840
• ISBN 13: 9780544227842
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544
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