This is biography at its most riveting-as intimate as a dinner party, albeit one attended by the greatest figures of their age." -Richard Norton Smith, author of Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation, director of the Gerald R. With a wit, originality, and erudition to rival his subject's, Brands gives us Benjamin Franklin living. It is scholarship as entertainment, history as adventure story." - Los Angeles Review of Books But Dreams of El Dorado is not challenging history. " Brands has a deft narrative touch and a talent for highlighting the human drama undergirding historical events. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author " A subject this monumental demands prose to match it, and I am pleased that to report that, in this sprawling epic, H. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Team of Rivalsĭreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (2019):
As if he were creating characters in a novel, he has brought to vivid life the central figures in his story-FDR, Eleanor, Sara Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the inner circle in the White House-while at the same time providing a fresh understanding of the rich historical context for their thoughts and actions at every step along the way.” Brands has accomplished a remarkable feat in this terrific work. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008)
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