Franklin Delano Roosevelt

She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. The dominant figures of Hitler and Stalin are flanked...

The Times Literary Supplement review diagnosed in this book a worship of success. The sketches, it pronounced, were of the lightest kind, admiring, gossippy, inexact—to be candid, somewhat hollow when they are not worse. It...

RC became ill with poliomyelitis. This was before immunization had been developed, and not much was known about the condition. The disease left her without full use of her right leg.

PB edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin : Our New Order—or Hitler 's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill , the Archbishop of Canterbury , Anthony Eden , Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

In this novel, which is written in the form of a diary, PB reiterates her praise for Churchill . Her narrator asserts that Churchill is England! and also refers to Roosevelt as that man of...