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Traitor to His Class

by H. W. Brands

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booksontrial in Dewey Decimal Challenge : BooksOnTrial Meets Dewey (Oct 15, 2009, 5:28pm)

... Tail 700 – Art Building the Getty 800 – Literature The Iliad The Odyssey 900 – History Traitor to His Class

booksontrial in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : booksontrial's 50 book reviews in 2009 (Sep 28, 2009, 1:43pm)

#76: alcottacre, Traitor To His Class is Brands' most recent book and 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Because he had studied and written biographies of Woodrow Wilson and TR: The Last Romantic before, he was able to demonstrate how FDR modeled his presidency after those two and also learned ...

booksontrial in Club Read 2009 : booksontrial's 50 book reviews in 2009 (Sep 27, 2009, 11:19pm)

Traitor To His Class by H.W.Brands A detailed account of FDR's life and times. It covers FDR's personal life (his relationships with his mother, wife and mistress), his apprenticeship in politics under Woodrow Wilson, whose internationalist idealism inspired FDR to lay down the foundation ...

booksontrial in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : booksontrial's 50 book reviews in 2009 (Sep 27, 2009, 11:17pm)

Traitor To His Class by H.W.Brands A detailed account of FDR's life and times. It covers FDR's personal life (his relationships with his mother, wife and mistress), his apprenticeship in politics under Woodrow Wilson, whose internationalist idealism inspired FDR to lay down the foundation ...

kidzdoc in The Prizes : The Pulitzer (Apr 20, 2009, 3:34pm)

Finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes: Fiction The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich All Souls by Christine Schutt (Harcourt) Drama Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo In The Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes History The Republic of Suffer ...

Schneider in American History : What are you reading? (Mar 17, 2009, 8:42am)

I have just started Traitor to his Class. So far it is living up to the hype.

hazel1123 in Non-Fiction Readers : December 2008: What non-fiction are you reading? (Dec 29, 2008, 1:29am)

I am reading Traitor to His Class by H. W. Brands. I like it a lot - about one third of the way through. I do wonder how much the tone of the book has been shaped by the current political and economic enviroment.

steiac in Second World War History : What if (Dec 7, 2008, 9:51pm)

I have been reading the new bio on FDR - Traitor to his class by H.W. Brands. It got me thinking: what if FDR had followed the George Washington precedent and declined to run for a third term in 1940. Who would have been President? Willkie? Farley? Hopkins? Somebody else? How would this ...

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