Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
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Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis.
Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in April 1945, on the cusp of wartime victory. These lieutenants composed the tough, constrictive, long-term core of government. They built the great institutions being raised against the Depression, implemented the New Deal, and they were pivotal to winning World War II.
Yet, in their different ways, each was as wounded as the polio-stricken titan. Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace were also strange outsiders. Up to 1933, none would ever have been considered for high office. Still, each became a world figure, and it would have been exceedingly difficult for Roosevelt to transform the nation without them.
By examining the lives of these four, a very different picture emerges of how Americans saved their democracy and rescued civilization overseas. Many of the dangers that they all overcame are troublingly like those America faces today.
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Derek Leebaert. (2023). Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Derek Leebaert. 2023. Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Derek Leebaert, Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made. Blackstone Publishing, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Derek Leebaert. Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2023.
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Yet, in their different ways, each was as wounded as the polio-stricken titan. Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace were also strange outsiders. Up to 1933, none would ever have been considered for high office. Still, each became a world figure, and it would have been exceedingly difficult for Roosevelt to transform the nation without them.
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