franklin and winston a portrait of a friendship jon meacham

Meacham’s new sources–including unpublished letters of FDR’s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill’s joint company–shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history. Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides–and Winston Churchill. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR’s affections–which was the way Roosevelt wanted it.

Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations–yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power.

Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one–a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. You can read this before Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įranklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship written by Jon Meacham which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham

Franklin and winston a portrait of a friendship jon meacham