An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest
political family and its enormous impact on our nation-the tie-in volume
to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014.
This handsome, engaging, revelatory book is an "intimate" history of
three extraordinary individuals from the same extraordinary
family-Theodore, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Geoffrey C.
Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about
the Roosevelts, and the acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns help us understand
for the first time that, despite the fierce partisanship of their eras
and ours, the Roosevelts were far more united than divided. All the
history the Roosevelts made is here, but this is primarily a book about
human beings, each of whom somehow overcame obstacles that would have
undone less forceful personalities, and all of whom wrestled in their
lives with issues still familiar to the rest of us-anger and the need
for forgiveness, courage and cowardice, confidence and self-doubt,
loyalty to family and the need to be oneself. This is the story of the
Roosevelts-no other American family ever touched so many lives.
