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Michael Beschloss has taken us a brilliantly readable and inspiring saga about crucial times in America's history whenever a courageous President drastically changed the continuing future of america.
With surprising new sources and a dazzling command of history and human character, Beschloss brings alive these flawed, complex men -- and their wives, families, friends and foes. Do not have we had a more intimate, behind-the-scenes view of Presidents dealing with the supreme dilemmas of the lives.
You will be in the room with the private George Washington, braving threats of impeachment and assassination to make peace with England. John Adams, incurring his party's "unrelenting hatred" by refusing to fight France and warning his enemies, "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war." Andrew Jackson, in a death struggle up against the corrupt Bank of america. Abraham Lincoln, risking his Presidency to insist that slaves be freed.
Beschloss also shows us Theodore Roosevelt, taunting J. P. Morgan and the Wall Street leaders who dominated his party. Franklin Roosevelt, defying the isolationists -- and maybe regulations -- to stop Adolf Hitler. Harry Truman, risking a walkout by top officials to recognize a Jewish state. John Kennedy, the belated champion of civil rights, complaining that he has cost himself a second term. And lastly, two hundred years after Washington, Ronald Reagan, irking some of his oldest backers to get a finish to the Cold War.
As Beschloss shows in this gripping and important book, none of these Presidents was eager to incur ridicule, vilification or threats of political destruction and even assassination. But in the end, bolstered by friends and family, hidden private beliefs and, sometimes, religious faith, each eventually proved himself to be, in Andrew Jackson's words, "born for the storm."
