Before the Trumpet
Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905
Geoffrey C. Ward
- 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.
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