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Title	:	Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Author	:	Jon Meacham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 490 pages
Published	:	October 12th 2004 by Random House Trade (first published January 1st 2003)
Categories	:	History. Biography. Nonfiction. Politics. Presidents. North American Hi.... American History. War. World War II

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship Paperback | Pages: 490 pages

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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one--a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.

Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations--yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR's affections--which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides--and Winston Churchill.

Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history.

Meacham's new sources--including unpublished letters of FDR's great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill's joint company--shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.

Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

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Original Title:	Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
ISBN:	0812972821 (ISBN13: 9780812972825)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill

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Why one more book about Winston Churchill or Franklin Delano Roosevelt? There are so many published, so many quoted and well-read. Manchester's "The Last Lion" started me on a lifetime fascination with Mr. Churchill. Amateur American historians all have read "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor" by Doris Kearns Goodwin and delighted in Goodwin's excellent writing and lovely personal tidbits about the couple who shaped America and the world during World War Two.So why this delightful little

Excellent book!! Loved reading about the friendship between Franklin and Winston. Would definitely recommend this one!!

f the 'Special Relationship' has ever existed and been anything more than a product of the wishful thinking of British Prime Ministers, it was forged in the years of the Second World War, as a result of the relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. I doubt our two countries have ever been closer - politically, military and personally as well.This book charts the evolution of the real bonds of affection between Churchill and FDR, bonds which were often strained by

I know a lot of people liked this book, but I found it lacking in many areas. For one the narrative is repetitious to the point of tedium. Over and over again we are told, rather than shown, that these two men, Franklin and Churchill admire and respect each other but that every element of this partnership is tinged with self-interest, or in their case the interest of their respective nations. The books starts by jumping around through time and the author seems to be taking clippings from various

As far as Meacham's books go, this one falls squarely in the middle. I absolutely loved American Lion but wasn't terribly fond of The Art of Power. Meacham promises "an intimate portrait of an epic friendship" and certainly delivers that throughout the course of this book in a very readable way.My boss bought and loaned me this book after I got her to read American Lion, and we both read through the first 100 pages very quickly. After Churchill and Roosevelt's initial (surprisingly) disagreeable

This was a fantastic story of the intimate and at times stormy relationship between FDR and Winston Churchill. The story, unlike many WWII narratives, is told from the perspective of their interactions. It is clear that both FDR and Churchill were magnificent leaders, each of whom took a principled stand against Nazism and Fascism, and it is also frightening to contemplate the course history may have taken had lesser leaders been in place.

Meacham does a fine job dissecting the personal and political friendship of perhaps the two most important figures in the 20th century. While neither man was perfect, each must be given his due for what he accomplished for his country as well as for the world in a time of mass upheaval and danger. Students of history should acknowledge that, as Churchill & England stood on the precipice of disaster and defeat at the hands of Hitler, America watched from the sidelines, content and happy in