Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph

In THE TRIUMPH Frank Friedel, who was recently appointed Professor of History at Harvard, writes of Roosevelt from the time of his inauguration as Governor of New York in 1929 to his election in 1932 as President of the United States. As Richard Hofstadter says, "The book tells us just what we want to know about one of the most fascinating phases of F.D.R.s career." For these were the years when Roosevelt's political sagacity and genius for leadership were clearly demonstrated in his dealing with antagonistic legislatures and with opposition within the Democratic party, in his battle for the presidential nomination and his triumphant election campaign in which he laid down the general outline of the New Deal.

"I did not think that anyone could come to the subject with such objectivity in this generation," wrote Raymond Moley after reading THE TRIUMPH, the third volume in Frank Freidel's "definitive" life of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Freidel had achieved this and nobody but the most insensate Roosevelt lover or hater could object to the way he has handled the situation. THE TRIUMPH is an outstanding job that will no doubt anchor down this very important phase of American history."