There are many volumes on FDR. Since the modern Presidency is one of my hobbies, I have read many if not most of them. This is one of the best, a judgment apparently shared by the American Society of Historians, since they awarded it the Francis Parkman Prize.

The book focuses on the war years and ends with FDR's untimely death in Warm Springs, Georgia. The writing is fresh and urgent and the author brings great insight into the momentous decisions made by FDR during those years, decisions that continue to shape our reality more than 50 years later.

This book is absolutely worth reading today if, for no other reason, to allow the current voting public to get a clue as to what a real President looks like.