{"product_id":"franklin-and-winston-an-intimate-portrait-of-an-epic-friendship-jon-meacham-paperback","title":"Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship -- Jon Meacham, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Meacham's new sources--including unpublished letters of FDR' s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Meacham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.12h x 5.24w x 1.09d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812972825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/31\/2004 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Meacham \u003c\/b\u003eis a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. The author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDestiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, \u003c\/i\u003ehe is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jon Meacham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67957754659044,"sku":"9780812972825","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780812972825.jpg?v=1793087558","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/franklin-and-winston-an-intimate-portrait-of-an-epic-friendship-jon-meacham-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}