Roosevelt (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: (American) Burns, translated by Sun Tianyi et al.
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Publication Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only U.S. president to have served four terms. While confined to a wheelchair, he skillfully used "fox-like tactics to achieve lion-like goals." Under his leadership, the United States laid a solid foundation for its status as a superpower, and he became one of the greatest presidents in the hearts of the American people. This book is primarily a political biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In addition to his social life, it thoroughly discusses his personal life, as his work ruthlessly swept everything about this great statesman into its vortex, including his family, even his beloved dog. How did Roosevelt become the political figure he was? Why was he so effective in gaining power? From a long-term perspective, how powerful was he as a leader? In what areas did he fail, and why? What was the significance of his life for the Americans and U.S. policy? This book also focuses on the issue of political leadership within the American democratic system. It primarily examines Roosevelt himself but also discusses the political environment in which he operated, because my approach is based on the main findings of social scientists: leadership is a universal problem of character and is rooted in a specific spiritual civilization. We can only understand this statesman by examining his political, social, and ideological context, that is, by understanding how he shaped society and how society shaped him.