Robert Dallek.
ROBERT DALLEK: FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT BIOGRAPHY
FRANKLIN D.ROOSEVELT: A POLITICAL LIFE (2017)
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Franklin Roosevelt (born 1882) was a Democrat politician, Governor of New York State, and 32nd President of the USA. After education at Harvard University he practised law, and was elected to the New York Senate in 1911, becoming Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the First World War. In 1921 Roosevelt suffered from a paralysing illness that disabled his legs. Encouraged by his wife Eleanor, he returned to public office in 1929 as Governor of New York, and was in 1932 elected USA President in a landslide. He embarked on a massive programme of government action to address the Great Depression. This included an ambitious programme of relief and work for the unemployed and to farmers. He was re-elected 1933. After Pearl Harbour he led the USA into the Second World War. He initiated the work on the atomic bomb, and prepared the way for the creation of the United Nations. His physical health declined steadily during the war years, and he died in 1945.
Reviewing Dallek’s biography of Roosevelt in the Washington Post, Douglas Brinkley described it as ‘'Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically objective and wide-angled ... Roosevelt is with us again in Dallek's outstanding cradle-to-grave study'. Reviewing the book in the Guardian, Greg Grandin wrote: 'Essential ... a master of the presidential biography captures Roosevelt's compassion and sense of solidarity'.
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Robert Dallek (born 1934) is a historian specialising in the modern history and politics of the USA. He was educated at the University of Illinois and at Columbia University where he took his PhD. He has been a professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles, and at Boston University. He has written biographies of John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger.
