Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, The Mantle of Command offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's masterful--and underappreciated--leadership of the Allied war effort.
After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton's account drives toward Operation Torch--the invasion of French Northwest Africa--and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance.
The Mantle of Command is an intimate, sweeping look at a great president in history's greatest conflict.
"This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt."--Christian Science Monitor
"Masterly."--Wall Street Journal
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, The Mantle of Command offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's masterful--and underappreciated--leadership of the Allied war effort.
After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton's account drives toward Operation Torch--the invasion of French Northwest Africa--and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance.
The Mantle of Command is an intimate, sweeping look at a great president in history's greatest conflict.
"This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt."--Christian Science Monitor
"Masterly."--Wall Street Journal
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