Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom

Summary

The second volume of Burns's biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, covering the wartime presidency from Pearl Harbor through Yalta and the final months in Warm Springs. Burns, a political scientist, weighs FDR's coalition diplomacy, domestic politics, and moral failures, including the internment of Japanese Americans and the slow response to the Holocaust. The result is an analytical portrait that admires Roosevelt's leadership while taking seriously the costs of his pragmatism.