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Franklin and Winston: A Portrait of a Friendship
by Jon Meacham
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Granta Books (2004-10-31)
ISBN: 1862077150
EAN: 9781862077157
Dewy Decimal #: 909
Hardcover: 512 pages
SKU: 406799
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: THE HARDBACK BOOK! RANDOM HOUSE, 2003. THE UNABRIDGED 1ST EDITION. WITH TERRIFIC PHOTOGRAPHS! HARDCOVER W/GILT LETTERING, DUST JACKET AND PAGES ARE FINE, LOOKS NEW! Rapid shipping w/FREE tracking. GREAT PACKAGING . Air Mail.
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Product Description
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of 'the Greatest Generation'. In Franklin and Winston, Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in the Second World War. It was a crucial and unique friendship: a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park and Casablanca, talking to each other of war, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Meacham's new sources, including unpublished letters of Roosevelt's great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few survivors who were in Roosevelt's 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. Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.
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Disappointed in the condition
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-01-10
1 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was supposed to be new. It was a gift and the cover sleeve was wrinkled and I was embarassed to give it as a gift. "Strand Books" should realize that if I had seen this book prior to purchasing, I would have chosen another book.
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