F.Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) — the only American President elected to that office four times. Using the "New course" he brought the United States out of the great depression and supervised them throughout the Second world war. Thanks to him, the country has done away with the traditional isolationism and became an influential member of the world community, and its citizens have a strong system of social protection. Sentimental belief in the goodness and justice coexisted in him with selfishness, prudence and willingness to make considerable sacrifices. He was noble and petty, self-sacrificing and vindictive. Why Roosevelt been sympathetic to Stalin and disliked de Gaulle? Who won in their with Churchill intellectual competitions? How family treated him love novels? How he managed, suffering from polio, giving speeches standing up? To these and other questions answers written on the basis of huge complex of literature and American archival material, the book of the doctor of historical Sciences Georgiy Chernyavsky about the last great President of the United States.