FDR INTO THE STORM 1937-1940

Davis, Kenneth

ISBN 10: 0679415416 / ISBN 13: 9780679415411

Verlag: Random House, New York, NY, 1993

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002538

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: FDR INTO THE STORM 1937-1940
• Verlag: Random House, New York, NY
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0679415416
• ISBN-13: 9780679415411
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 2nd Printing
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

The penultimate volume in the award-winning, monumental biography of Franklin Roosevelt documents FDR's second term as president, his response to the growing power of fascism in Europe, and his 1940 presidential campaign. 15,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A biographer of Eisenhower, Lindbergh, and Adlai Stevenson as well as a novelist, Kenneth S. Davis was awarded the prestigious Francis Parkman Prize forFDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, which was also a nominee for the National Book Award. In addition, his next two volumes on FDR were both chosen as among the ten best books of the year byThe New York Times.

A graduate of Kansas State University, with a master of science degree from the University of Wisconsin and an honorary doctorate of letters from Assumption College, Davis was a journalism instructor at New York University, a war correspondent attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters, special assistant to Milton Eisenhower, the president of Kansas State University, a member of the State Department's UNESCO relations staff, editor of The Newberry Library Bulletin in Chicago, adjunct professor of English at Clark University, and an adjunct professor of history at both Kansas University and Kansas State University. Kenneth S. Davis died in June 1999.