The good news is that even as a young boy Roosevelt had a keen eye to what was going on around him, and gives us a peek behind the curtains of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., including Franklin Delano Roosevelt‘s “bedside breakfast meetings” where the president read the comics to his grandchildren while reviewing the day‘s schedule with his advisers.
Considered the family historian by the Hyde Park Presidential Library, Roosevelt, 78, is able to take a step back and analyze his famous family, touching on everything from the tensions between Eleanor and her strong mother-inlaw, Sara Delano Roosevelt, to the early estrangement between his father, Curtis Dall, and his mother, Anna Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt‘s daughter. Curtis Roosevelt eventually took the Roosevelt name. And perhaps the dedication of the book says it all, too: “To my sister, with whom I shared my strange and wonderful childhood.”
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O autorovi| Stránku připravila Marta Pelechová
