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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt( )
Author: Brinkley, Alan
ISBN:978-0-19-973202-9
Publication Date:Dec 2009
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $13.99
Book Description:

This short biography chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt's rise from a childhood of privilege to a presidency that forever changed the face of international diplomacy, the American party system, and the United States government's role in global and domestic policy. Thoroughly revised and expanded since its original publication in the American National Biography, this biography provides a clear, concise introduction to FDR's pioneering presidency and enduring legacy.

Book Details
Pages:130
Detailed Subjects: History / United States / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8 x 5.2 x 0.7 Inches
Book Weight:0.531 Pounds
Author Biography
Brinkley, Alan (Author)
Alan Brinkley was born in 1949. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at MIT and Harvard as well as City University of New York and Princeton University before joining the Columbia faculty in 1991. He is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he was also Provost from 2003 - 2009. He is a historian of the New Deal. A prolific essayist, Brinkley writes regularly in magazines such as The New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, Newsweek and The New Republic and is an advocate for progressive issues. Brinkley has won a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the National Book Award for History, and numerous other prizes and fellowships, and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also serves as a board member or trustee of several academic and policy research institutions and chairs the board of The Century Foundation.

His works include Liberalism and Its Discontents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century.

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