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In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime origins. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt discovered quickly and rose to national visibility during World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not his ambitions. While his stature was growing, his testy matrimony to his cousin Eleanor was fraying amid scandal quietly covered up. Even polio a season later would not suppress the ever indomitable Roosevelt and his inescapable ascent. Against the backdrop of a reluctant America's accessibility into a global warfare and FDR's hawkish build-up of a modern navy, Washington's gossip-ridden world, and the nation's surging economy, Weintraub summons up the first affects on the young and enterprising nephew of his predecessor, "Uncle Ted".
