Franklin and Winston
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Cariou, Len, narrator.
Published
New York : Random House Audio, [2003].
ISBN
0739306774, 9780739306772
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Frankfort Public Library District - Stacks | AUDIO WORLD HISTORY MILITARY MEACHAM | On Shelf |
Glen Ellyn Public Library - Adult Audiobooks | CD (BK.) 940.53092 MEA | On Shelf |
Oak Lawn Public Library - AV | CD 940.53092 MEACHAM | On Shelf |
Riverside Public Library - Adult AV | ACD 940.53 MEA | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Audiobooks.
Biographies.
Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965 -- Military leadership.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945 -- Military leadership.
Sound recordings.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
Biographies.
Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965 -- Military leadership.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945 -- Military leadership.
Sound recordings.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
More Details
Published
New York : Random House Audio, [2003].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
0739306774, 9780739306772
Notes
General Note
Subtitle from container.
General Note
Abridged.
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Len Cariou.
Description
""The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders 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" -- from publisher's web site.
Local note
AUDIOBOOK CD
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Meacham, J., & Cariou, L. (2003). Franklin and Winston . Random House Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Meacham, Jon and Len, Cariou. 2003. Franklin and Winston. Random House Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Meacham, Jon and Len, Cariou. Franklin and Winston Random House Audio, 2003.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Meacham, Jon., and Len Cariou. Franklin and Winston Random House Audio, 2003.
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