franklin and winston a portrait of a friendship

Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides-and Winston Churchill. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR's affections-which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations-yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one-a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Jon Meacham talked about his book, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, published by Random House.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of 'the Greatest Generation.' In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. The book utilizes new sources including unpublished letters of President Roosevelt’s secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who knew Roosevelt and Churchill. Meacham also described how their relationships with their parents shaped their interactions. They talked to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. It was a friendship in which the two world leaders spent much time together (113 days during the war) in a variety of places and exchanged nearly two thousand messages.

The book explores the relationship between the two men. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were the leaders of World War II who set the stage for the modern world.

T19:59:25-05:00 Jon Meacham talked about his book, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, published by Random House.

Franklin and winston a portrait of a friendship