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What Made FDR Great?

Empathy and grave illness are not enough to explain the political genius of a man who triumphed not because of his disabilities but in spite of them.

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FDR at Quebec in 1943. Via Wikimedia Commons
CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

‘Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President’
By Jonathan Darman
Random House, 448 pages

‘Hoover vs. Roosevelt: Two Presidents’ Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War’
By Hal Elliott Wert
Stackpole Books, 536 pages

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CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. He has published fourteen biographies and has written about biography for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington, Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Criterion, and other publications.

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