The Washington Post, March 18th, 1990
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A Rendezvous with Destiny By Frank Freidel Little, Brown. 710 pp. $24.95 THE RECORD duration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's incumbency spanned two complete and distinct presidencies. For eight years he was the Great Depression President, pursuing experimental policies that sometimes were brilliant successes and sometimes were wildly erratic failures. For almost five years he was the War President, subtly positioning an isolationist nation to engage in the global struggle against fascism and then to emerge, after his death, as the beacon of democracy. Frank Freidel, professor ...
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