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24 titles for readers of FDR by Jean Edward Smith, selected for shared themes: Presidents & Heads of State, World War II, Wars & Conflicts, and 20th Century.

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No Ordinary Time Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II — Doris Kearns Goodwin

No Ordinary Time Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Three Days at the Brink FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II — Bret Baier

Three Days at the Brink FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

War and Peace Fdr’s Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945 — Nigel Hamilton

War and Peace Fdr’s Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Forged in War Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War — Warren F. Kimball

Forged in War Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War

Warren F. Kimball

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Freedom Betrayed Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath — Herbert Hoover

Freedom Betrayed Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Light of Battle Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower — Michel Paradis

The Light of Battle Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

General Ike A Personal Reminiscence — John Eisenhower

General Ike A Personal Reminiscence

John Eisenhower

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

America First Roosevelt Vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War — H. W. Brands

America First Roosevelt Vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

V Is For Victory Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II — Craig Nelson

V Is For Victory Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Secret Germany Stauffenberg and the True Story of Operation Valkyrie — Michael Baigent

Secret Germany Stauffenberg and the True Story of Operation Valkyrie

Michael Baigent

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Eisenhower Becoming the Leader of the Free World — Louis Galambos

Eisenhower Becoming the Leader of the Free World

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Accidental President Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World — Albert J. Baime

The Accidental President Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World

Albert J. Baime

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

An Unsung Soldier The Life of Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster — Robert S. Jordan

An Unsung Soldier The Life of Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster

Robert S. Jordan

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II — Doris Kearns Goodwin

No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Franklin D. Roosevelt A Political Life — Robert Dallek

Franklin D. Roosevelt A Political Life

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Watchdog How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two — Steve Drummond

The Watchdog How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Pearl Harbor FDR Leads the Nation Into War — Steven M. Gillon

Pearl Harbor FDR Leads the Nation Into War

Steven M. Gillon

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

In The Time Of The Americans FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur-The Generation That Changed America’s Role in the World — David Fromkin

In The Time Of The Americans FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur-The Generation That Changed America’s Role in the World

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Jew who Defeated Hitler Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and how We Won the War — Peter Moreira

The Jew who Defeated Hitler Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and how We Won the War

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Radium Girls The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women — Kate Moore

The Radium Girls The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Awakening the Spirit of America FDR’s War of Words With Charles Lindbergh—and the Battle to Save Democracy — Paul M. Sparrow

Awakening the Spirit of America FDR’s War of Words With Charles Lindbergh—and the Battle to Save Democracy

Paul M. Sparrow

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Bunker Hill A City, a Siege, a Revolution — Nathaniel Philbrick

Bunker Hill A City, a Siege, a Revolution

Nathaniel Philbrick

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Mein Kampf The Full German and English Text — Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf The Full German and English Text

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Triumph and Tragedy — Winston S. Churchill

Triumph and Tragedy

Winston S. Churchill

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Presidents & Heads of State, World War II, Wars & Conflicts — the same threads that run through FDR by Jean Edward Smith. Among the authors featured: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bret Baier, Nigel Hamilton, Warren F. Kimball, and others.

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