Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox

Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox by James MacGregor Burns. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781568520889.

This book presents answers to many of the most tantalizing riddles about the complex personality of FDR. How could this aristocrat, whose greatest youthful tragedy was a snub from tan exclusive Harvard club, become the idol of the poor and the hope of the average man? Was he really radical or essentially a conservative, determined to save old-fashioned democracy and the free-enterprise system in spite of itself? Well written, with a complete index, this volume will assist any scholar of Roosevelt in their discovery.