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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Jon Meacham

Paperback | Pages: 490 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 6485 Users | 407 Reviews

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Title	:	Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Author	:	Jon Meacham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 490 pages
Published	:	October 12th 2004 by Random House Trade (first published January 1st 2003)
Categories	:	History. Biography. Nonfiction. Politics. Presidents. North American Hi.... American History. War. World War II

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Franklin 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. 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. 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.

Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. 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. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. 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. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides--and Winston Churchill.

Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. 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.

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.

Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

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Original Title:	Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
ISBN:	0812972821 (ISBN13: 9780812972825)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill

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The focus is on the friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill which was at times difficult and strained. I already knew a lot more about Churchill than I did Roosevelt, and saw Churchill as a greater figure than Roosevelt. I know that FDR did great things for my own country, and that he was a great figure of the 20th century, but Churchill was just a much more likable character. The book helped me understand that Churchill had a deep-seated need to be liked due to his

Meacham does a fine job dissecting the personal and political friendship of perhaps the two most important figures in the 20th century. While neither man was perfect, each must be given his due for what he accomplished for his country as well as for the world in a time of mass upheaval and danger. Students of history should acknowledge that, as Churchill & England stood on the precipice of disaster and defeat at the hands of Hitler, America watched from the sidelines, content and happy in

I had to give up on this book. I have been reading it for 2 1/2 weeks and haven't been able to navigate through 100 pages yet. I hate to give up, but there are too many other books out there that I know will hold my interest for me to waste any more time on this one.



Engaging book for about half the numbers of pages. Both of these men knew they were speaking for posterity in historic times and, while much about what each accomplished is to be admired and studied, the admiration society gets a little tedious. Halfway through I started looking for biographies of the men in this era who did not make the world stage as brightly as Roosevelt and Churchill, and found a Harry Hopkins biography that I am enjoying. Hopkins was pulled into the Roosevelt administration

A really unique book! Jon Meacham brings to life the friendship between two of the greatest men of their time: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. While Meacham stresses that his book is not a history book but rather a look at the relationship between the President and Prime Minister, one can't help but absorb the historical events surrounding the letters and meetings of these two men. Such a tumultuous time in history required the leadership of larger-than-life personalities, and

This detailed examination of the friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill is a well done, enjoyable read. Author Jon Meacham used extensive resources and in-depth research to bring these two twentieth-century titans to life. Although he provides good background, the book is concentrated on their relationship years, which began in 1939 and ends with Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945. Meacham does a superb job of developing the characters of the two men and their interplay