Voices in Our Blood : America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement

History

Jon Meacham

Americas

Random House, Incorporated

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Random House Audio |

His Truth Is Marching On

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

BOOKS ON TAPE]

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of 'the Greatest Generation'. In Franklin and Winston, Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in the Second World War. It was a crucial and unique friendship: a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park and Casablanca, talking to each other of war, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Meacham's new sources, including unpublished letters of Roosevelt's great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few survivors who were in Roosevelt's 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. Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

Franklin and Winston : A Portrait of a Friendship

World

Granta Books

This book chooses to, from a political perspective, interpret Thomas Jefferson, evaluate how he struck a balance between idealism and pragmatism, while letting other people to obey one's own will.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Hardcover) (Chinese Edition)

CITIC Press Corporation

The Soul of America (The Battle for Our Angels) (Chinese Edition)

Hunan literature and Art Publishing House

<p>Em 'Franklin e Winston', Jon Meacham explora o relacionamento e os acordos entre dois grandes líderes, homens que pilotaram o mundo livre rumo à vitória durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nascidos no século XIX e formadores das diretrizes históricas do século XX, o presidente americano Franklin Roosevelt e o primeiro-ministro britânico Winston Churchill tinham muito em comum - filhos da elite inglesa e americana, estudantes de história, estrategistas e políticos de primeira, viciados em poder. Meacham teve acesso a fontes inéditas, entre elas as cartas da amante de Roosevelt, para traçar o perfil dos dois homens e uma radiografia de seu relacionamento. Aqui, ele se preocupa em mostrar os dois lados desses líderes, justapondo e contrapondo pensamentos e estratégias tanto de suas mentes militares e políticas quanto de sua personalidade íntima. O resultado é um livro saboroso, que mostra que Roosevelt era melhor político; Churchill um ser humano mais amoroso. Quando Hitler dominava o continente, contemplando o outro lado do Canal da Mancha, Winston Churchill ficou sozinho e devolveu o olhar. 'Franklin e Winston' mostra que antes de serem monumentos, eles eram homens. 'Para ser justo com um grande homem, é preciso criticá-lo com discernimento,' escreveu Churchill. 'Falar efusivamente, por mais que sacie, é sempre insípido.' Seus defeitos pessoais - o fingimento de Roosevelt, o egocentrismo de Churchill - eram, em certos momentos, virtudes políticas. A conexão Roosevelt-Churchill foi, como disse Eleanor Roosevelt, 'uma amizade feliz'.</p>

Franklin e Winston

Record

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