Henry William Brands (born August 7, 1953) is an American educator, historian, and author of 25 books on U.S. history and biography. He is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and a Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. - Wikipedia
Traitor to his class
Traitor to his class
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Drawing on archival material, speeches, and correspondence, H.W. Brands traces how a man born into East Coast wealth and privilege became the president who built the modern American welfare state and led the country through the Depression and the Second World War. The book follows Roosevelt from his sheltered Hudson Valley childhood and early political ambitions, through polio and personal crisis, to the presidency that remade the relationship between government and ordinary Americans.
Brands pays particular attention to the apparent contradiction of the book's title: a man of Roosevelt's class and background becoming the era's most consequential champion of the poor and working class, and what that tension reveals about his political character.
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Traitor to his classUnknown, 2009
888 pages
Anchor BooksLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97803072779471st Anchor Books ed.2 editions available
