sarahglabb's review against another edition
5.0
This has to be one of the best nonfiction books that I've read recently. It gives a lot of insight into the character of Franklin Roosevelt. It doesn't glorify him or demonize him. He's just a person. We get to know Eleanor a bit too in the book and see some of her faults.
I don't know what else to say about the book but that it reads well and it's great.
I don't know what else to say about the book but that it reads well and it's great.
markk's review
5.0
I have long regarded Franklin Roosevelt as one of the greatest American presidents, but I don't think I fully appreciated him as a person until I read Ward's book while I was in college. While the preceding volume, [b:Before the Trumpet|641176|Before the Trumpet The Young Franklin Roosevelt|Geoffrey C. Ward|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|3344880], is good, it's this second one, which covers FDR's life from his marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt to his successful campaign for the governorship of New York in 1928, that is truly brilliant. Credit is due not just to Ward's skills as a writer, but the insight he brings to FDR's life as a fellow polio victim. After reading it it's impossible not to appreciate the role the infliction of the disease played in making FDR who he was as president.
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