The last 100 days FDR at war and at peace

A portrait of the end of FDR's life shares insights into how he made his final policy decisions and pursued what mattered most to him, including the establishment of the United Nations, a reinvigoration of the New Deal, and a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

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Main Author: Woolner, David B., 1955- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, [2017]
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300 |a xiv, 349 pages :  |b illustrations, maps, portraits ;  |c 24 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-335) and index. 
505 0 |a Prologue : the last Christmas -- An uncertain new year -- Atlantic sojourn -- Interlude at Malta -- On to the Crimea -- Sunrise over Yalta -- Coming to grips with "the German problem" -- The Polish quandary -- The birth of the United Nations -- The final turn -- The last mission -- Failure at Bitter Lake -- Going home -- The Last address -- March days -- The architect -- Hudson requiem -- Easter in Warm Springs -- Off the record -- The last day -- Epilogue : looking beyond victory. 
520 |a A portrait of the end of FDR's life shares insights into how he made his final policy decisions and pursued what mattered most to him, including the establishment of the United Nations, a reinvigoration of the New Deal, and a Jewish homeland in Palestine. 
520 |a "The first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency are justly famous, a period of political action without equal in American history and still the standard by which we judge our presidents. Yet, in this remarkably intimate portrait of a president nearing the end, Roosevelt scholar David B. Woolner contends that the last hundred days might very well rival them in drama and consequence. Woolner takes us from the final Christmas in Hyde Park, New York, where FDR received dispiriting reports from the Battle of the Bulge, to his unexpected death in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945, when the war in Europe was all but over. Though suffering from numerous ailments, some diagnosed, others not, FDR traveled halfway around the globe and back again, presiding over pivotal summits--including with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta--whose legacy are still felt across the world. Throughout, FDR called on every ounce of his diminishing energy in his attempts to establish a congress of nations, reinvigorate the New Deal, and bring an end to American isolationism. As Woolner argues, better than any of his aides or foreign counterparts, FDR understood the crucial role of the United States in shaping the peace to come, to the point that he contemplated resigning his office to become the first secretary-general of the United Nations. The Last 100 Days ultimately forces us to reckon with Roosevelt's conviction that the world's problems are America's problems, and to ask ourselves if, in the face of the challenges confronting us today, we will exhibit the same courage to live up to our responsibilities."--Jacket. 
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