Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life

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In Young Mr. Roosevelt, preeminent historian Stanley Weintraub examines Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime apprenticeship, where he learned the ropes in politics, war, and love. Told against the backdrop of America's first reluctant entry into world war, its tentative efforts to build a modern navy, Washington's gossip-ridden society (led flamboyantly by Theodore Roosevelt's eldest daughter, Alice), and the nation's bursting-at-the-seams economy, Weintraub probes the influences on the young and politically ambitious FDR. Table of Contents Preface: The Beginnings of Promise 1. The Shadow of "Uncle Ted" 2. Under the Mansard Roofs 3. The Little White House 4. War across the Sea 5. Rattling the Sword 6. Limits of an Assistant Secretary 7. "FDR Wishes to Go Abroad" 8. "As the Rules Dictate" 9. Aftermath 10. Running toward the Future 11. Postscript Sources Acknowledgments Index