Franklin and Winston. A Portrait of a Friendship.

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Diagonal crease to minimally soiled front cover, vertical crease starting to spine, crinkly flare-up to backstrip, tiny closed tear to rear cover and preceding leaf, else Fine.

Drawing on interviews with surviving staffers and other previously untapped sources, the author delves into the deep and complicated relationship between FDR and Churchill and its seminal influence on the course of World War II. Much time was spent together (a total of 113 days), planning, eating, smoking and drinking many a cocktail, and Meacham fleshes out the men behind the public personae, revealing the intricacies and the sometimes raw opportunism of their comradeship. By the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion.

"[A] sensitive, perceptive, and absorbing portrait of a friendship." –Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., author of The Age of Roosevelt