ROOSEVELT: THE SOLDIER OF FREEDOM : 1940-1945 - A GIVEAWAY

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ROOSEVELT:

THE SOLDIER OF FREEDOM: 1940-1945

BY JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The first political biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. This award-winning companion volume to Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox concludes the first and most acclaimed complete biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Undoubtedly the most comprehensive study of one of America's most acclaimed presidents, this classic biography is unparalleled in its depth, accuracy, and accomplishment. “A case study unmatched in American political writings” (Newsweek). Includes an Index and photographs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

James MacGregor Burns ( b. August 3, 1918 ) is a presidential biographer, authority on leadership studies, Woodrow Wilson Professor (emeritus) of Political Science at Williams College, and scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1971 for his Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945.

His key innovation in leadership theory was shifting away from studying the traits of great men and transactional management to focus on the interaction of leaders and led as collaborators working toward mutual benefit. He is best known for contributions to the Transformational, Aspirational and Visionary schools of leadership theory.

PRAISE FOR ROOSEVELT: THE SOLDIER OF FREEDOM:

"I believe this will be the definitive book on Roosevelt in the wary years"
 --William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

"A work so readable and so wise in the ways of our modern domestic and international history that anyone who would understand the American republic at this perilous point in the 20th century should not miss it."   

-- Stewart L. Udall

"Engrossing, informative, endlessly readable." 

-- Barbara Tuchman, author of The Guns of August 
  
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