Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign

Stanley Weintraub. Historian Weintraub looks at an ailing President Franklin D. Roosevelt's last campaign. In this well-researched, engaging history, Weintraub effectively brings the players to life, portraying the public and private faces of the witty, indomitable FDR and his opponent, the stiff, humorless New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Weintraub shows how Roosevelt, despite his illness, was still a force to be reckoned with. He continued to give dazzling speeches and enjoyed loyal support from many constituencies, including soldiers still at war, who voted absentee for FDR in large numbers. A well-drawn political history of FDR's last days.--Kirkus

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