San Antonio College Library

A lively narrative of the Roosevelt family from the 1640's to the 1960's.

"A synthesis of the best modern scholarship on the Roosevelt administration, McJimsey's study portrays Roosevelt as a pluralist leader whose various New Deal programs empowered the American people to combat America's Great Depression at the grass roots by participating in programs for agriculture, industry, labor, the unemployed, and "underdeveloped" regions." "McJimsey pays particular attention to the political environment in which Roosevelt's presidency...

Creates an intimate portrait of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as individuals, husband and wife, and world leaders, as witnessed by their son.

"In Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret and our worst military disaster. Drawing on twelve years of research and access to scores of previously classified documents, Stinnett proves that Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese military coup. By showing that ample warning of the attack was on FDR's desk and, furthermore, that a plan...

He was born into one of the few really patrician families in the United States; his imperious, strong-willed mother was young enough to be his father's daughter; he grew up on a landed estate beside the Hudson River, was educated at one of the most exclusive preparatory schools in the country and as an undergraduate at Harvard lived a life of splendor on the legendary Gold Coast; his wife was a distant cousin whose bloodlines were as exemplary as...