Conrad Black.
CONRAD BLACK
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT: CHAMPION OF FREEDOM (2003)
Frankin Delano Roosevelt (born 1882) was oneof the most prominent American Presidents of the 20th century. He served as Governor of New York from 1929 to 1933. He then served as President from 1933 to his death in 1945, his third term being an exception to the two-term limit justified by the USA being at war. He had defeated Herbert Hoover by a landslide in the 1932 election, and went on to initiate a sweeping programme of government industrial interventions to address the Great Depression. He led the USA throughout the Second World War, and was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb. He also laid the basis for the creation of the United Nations. Throughout his career he coped with, and largely concealed, the paralysis of his legs arising from a paralytic illness he suffered in 1921.
The Times reviewed Conrad Black’s biography of Franklin Roosevelt thus: "A monumental and masterful biography... This is a brilliant, scholarly, fluent and stimulating read, rich in detail and anecdote, full of robust opinions, enlivened by dry humour and composed with restraint if not economy... a prodigious contribution to an understanding of the pivotal events of America's 20th century."
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Conrad Black (born 1944) is a Canadian who built up a large newspaper publishing business which included UK, US, Canadian and Austrailian newspapers. Prominent among these was the UK’s Daily Telegraph. His newspaper empire collapsed following his conviction and imprisonment for fraud. Alongside his tumultuous business career, Black developed a career as a highly respected biographer whose subjects included Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon.
