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| Title: | Making of FDR
: The Story of Stephen T Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary |
| Author: | Linda Lotridge Levin |
| ISBN: | 159102577X : 9781591025771 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 538 |
| Weight: | .625 Kg. |
| Published: | Prometheus Books - November 2007 |
| List Price: | 19.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Political leaders & leadership: USA: American history: from c1900- |
In this engrossing narrative that brings to life key people and events during a calamitous time in American history, this book documents how Stephen Early remade what had been just a routine White House briefing function into the modern high-visibility role of the presidential press secretary. The book chronicles the lifelong loyalty of Early to President Roosevelt including their close but often tumultuous professional and personal relationship.
Preface; The Journalist Meets the Politician; Mr Early Goes to War; The 1920 Campaign; Back to the Associated Press; Preparing for the White House; Launching the Juggernaut; The Honeymoon; Hobgoblins; On Behalf of the President; The 1936 Campaign: To Stay or Leave; Court Packing and Other Problems; Good Friends and Job Offers; Moving Toward World Chaos; Fatal Days in Europe, Decisions at Home; The Sloan Affair; "Just Between Us Girls"; Pearl Harbor; "Serve in Silence"; "The Travefingest President"; Morningside Drive; Extracting News from Oysters; "The Great White Jail"; To Yalta and Back Again; Then There Was One; The Last Ride; Endnotes.
