Kenneth Sydney Davis

"FDR: The War President opens as Roosevelt has been re-elected to a third term and the United States is drifting toward a war that has already engulfed Europe. Roosevelt, as commander in chief, statesman, and politician, must navigate a delicate balance between helping those in Europe - while remaining mindful of the forces of isolation both in the Congress and the country - and protecting the gains of the New Deal, upon which he has spent so much of his prestige and power.". "Kenneth S. Davis draws vivid depictions of the lives, characters, and temperaments of the military and political personalities so paramount to the history of the time: Churchill, Stalin, de Gaulle, and Hitler; Generals Marshall, Eisenhower, and MacArthur; Admiral Darlan, Chiang Kai-shek, Charles Lindbergh, William Allen White, Joseph Kennedy, Averell Harriman, Harry Truman, Robert Murphy, Sidney Hillman, William Knudsen, Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Henry Stimson, A. Philip Randolph, Wendell Willkie, and Henry Wallace." "The portrait of Henry Hopkins, who interacted with many of these personalities on behalf of Roosevelt, is woven into this history as the complex, interconnected relationship it was. Hopkins burnished the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt and eased the way for their interactions with Stalin.". "Another set of characters central to Roosevelt's life and finely drawn by the author includes Eleanor Roosevelt, Sara Roosevelt, Missy LeHand, Grace Tully, Princess Martha of Norway, and Daisy Suckley."--BOOK JACKET.

Traces the life of the American statesman from Illinois from his rise as governor to running for president and United States ambassador to the United Nations.

As Into the Storm opens, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has just been reelected for a second term, a victory unprecedented in its magnitude. Soon after, because he felt that the Supreme Court was obstructing programs he favored, he launched a frontal assault on the Court as a "separate" but equal branch of government and proposed to "pack" it with liberal justices of his own choosing - the result of which was a split among the liberal supporters Roosevelt already had and a strengthening of his conservative opposition. In addition, he attempted to purge Democratic senators and representatives who had joined with Republicans to frustrate his New Deal agenda. FDR's political maneuverings occurred at a particularly dangerous time: The world was about to enter its most destructive war. Japan marched toward conquest in the Far East. Fascist General Franco destroyed the Spanish republic in a cruel and bloody civil war. Hitler absorbed Austria and triumphed over Chamberlain in Munich, after which he occupied Czechoslovakia and invaded Poland. Roosevelt's courage, patience, intelligence, and capacity to endure - plus his role-playing ability - were tested to the utmost as he was forced to make a highly difficult shift from New Deal nationalism toward a policy of collective security. The detailed story of this testing - his dealings with the Panay incident in China, with the grave economic recession at home, with internecine quarrels in the Tennessee Valley Authority and the War Department, with desperately needed reorganization of the executive branch, coupled with his abortive attempts to educate the American public in the realities of the world crisis - makes up the highly dramatic middle portion of this book. Ultimately, FDR: Into the Storm deals with the coming of World War II and the great debate between adherents of national defense and isolationism. Out of this we see the gradual emergence of Roosevelt as a great leader, not only of his countrymen but, indeed, of the free world. The culmination of this volume of great narrative history is the hard-fought and distorted presidential election campaign of 1940. By the time of Roosevelt's victory, the first slow steps had been taken toward preparing the United States for the great trials ahead.

Teagan, Finn, and Aiden have made it out of Mag Mell alive, but the Dark Man's forces follow them to Chicago, where Tea's goblin cousins cause all sorts of trouble while she is torn between the life she wants and the future she is drawn to as a wild Stormrider, born to reign.