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A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the number one New York Times best-selling biographer of JFK, concentrating on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and package maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there may be no more timely biography of one of our most significant presidents than the one which focuses on his unparalleled political capacity as a uniter and consensus maker. Robert Dallek's Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Politics Life requires a fresh go through the many powerful questions that have seduced all his biographers: How do a guy who came from so privileged a backdrop become the most significant presidential champion of the country's needy? How do someone who never won recognition for his intellect foster cutting edge changes in the country's economic and social establishments? How do Roosevelt work such a deep change in the country's international relations? For FDR, politics was a far more interesting and fulfilling quest than the management of family fortunes or the indulgence of personal pleasure, and by the time he became chief executive, he previously commanded the love and affection of thousands of people. While all Roosevelt's biographers concur that the onset of polio at the age of 39 endowed him with a much greater sense of humanity, Dallek views the affliction as an inadequate justification for his change into a masterful politician who win an unprecedented four presidential terms, initiate landmark reforms that altered the American professional system, and convert an isolationist country into a global superpower. Dallek features FDR's success to two remarkable political insights. First, unlike any other president, he comprehended that effectiveness in the American political system depended on creating a national consensus and commanding secure long-term popular support. Second, he made the presidency the central, most important establishment in modern America's political system. In handling the country's international and domestic problems, Roosevelt regarded the vital need for remaining closely mindful of the full range of public sentiment around policy-making decisions - perhaps FDR's most enduring lessons in effective authority.
