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The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional

connection between two of history’s towering leaders

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders

of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham

explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who

piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial

friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister

spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the

war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails,

cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as

far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran,

talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command,

their health, their wives, and their children.

Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and

twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of

the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they

savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated,

dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own

nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of

the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an

emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British

prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour,

standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure

about his place in FDR’s affections—which was the way Roosevelt

wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance,

including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides—and Winston

Churchill.

Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a

victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally

conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of

their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most

sweeping global conflict in history.

Meacham’s new sources—including unpublished letters of FDR’s great

secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill

Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in

FDR and Churchill’s joint company—shed fresh light on the

characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in

which they decided the course of the struggle.

Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart,

but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was

always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of

strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account

of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Jon Meacham is the managing editor of Newsweek. Born in

Chattanooga in 1969, he is a graduate of The University of the

South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The editor of Voices in Our Blood:

America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement, Meacham lives in New

York City with his wife and son.

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“This is at once an important, insightful, and highly

entertaining portrait of two men at the peak of their powers who,

through their genius, common will, and uncommon friendship, saved

the world. Jon Meacham’s Franklin and Winston takes its place in

the front ranks of all that has been written about these two great

men.“

—Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation

“Franklin and Winston is a sensitive, perceptive, and absorbing

portrait of the friendship that saved the democratic world in the

greatest war in history.”

—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., author of The Age of Roosevelt

“Jon Meacham has done groundbreaking work by focusing on the World

War II alliance between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as

a friendship. Using important new sources, he has brought us a

shrewd, original, sensitive, and fascinating look at the

many-layered relationship between these two towering human beings,

as well as their friends, families, aides, and allies. The book

reveals the emotional undercurrents that linked FDR and

Churchill—and sometimes estranged them—and teases out which of the

ties between them were heartfelt and which were based on raw mutual

political need. Meacham triumphantly shows how lucky we are that

Roosevelt and Churchill were in power together during some of the

most threatening moments of the twentieth century.”

—Michael Beschloss, author of The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and

the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945

“The relationship between FDR and Churchill was the most important

political friendship of the twentieth century, not only determining

the outcome of World War II but also setting a pattern that has

endured ever since. Jon Meacham brings it to vivid life, shedding

new insights into its strange and poignant complexity, and why its

legacy has helped shape the modern world.”

—Richard Holbrooke, author of To End a War

“Jon Meacham enlivens the two men, their families, and their

personal relations and relationships, providing a human context for

the world-shaping leaders of the Anglo-American alliance during the

Second World War.”

—Warren F. Kimball, author of Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill,

and the Second World War

From the Hardcover edition.

书籍介绍

The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.

Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR’s affections—which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides—and Winston Churchill.

Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history.

Meacham’s new sources—including unpublished letters of FDR’s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill’s joint company—shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle.

Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

From the Hardcover edition.