Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804173339)

Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world. In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that world--Hyde Park on the Hudson and Campobello Island, Groton and Harvard and the Continent--to recreate as never before the formative years of the man who would become the 20th century's greatest president. Here, drawn from thousands of original documents (many never previously published), is a richly-detailed, intimate biography, its central figure surrounded by a colorful cast that includes an opium smuggler and a pious headmaster; Franklin's distant cousin, Theodore and his remarkable mother, Sara; and the still-more remarkable young woman he wooed and won, his cousin Eleanor. This is a tale that would grip the reader even if its central character had not grown up to be FDR.

Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
ISBN-10: 0804173338
ISBN-13: 9780804173339
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2014
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d