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Preface<br >My parents probably were the most important pair of per-<br >sonalities in the two-hundred-year history of this country.<br >Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as president for more than<br >thirteen years, longer than any other president has served.<br >And he served during a period that was as critical as any in<br >our history. Eleanor Roosevelt pioneered the participation of<br >women in public life. Lately, their private affairs have been<br >made public property, A case can be made for the Kennedys,<br >but John F. Kennedy served as president less than three years,<br >while Jacqueline Kennedy is, unfortunately, better known<br >for her private than for her public affairs. Washington, Jeffer-<br >son, Lincoln and our other presidential immortals did not<br >have wives who made any real public impact.<br > More than ninety years after the birth of my father and<br >mother, almost forty-five years after he was elected to the<br >presidency, more than thirty years after his death, and more<br >than fifteen years after hers, there has been a reawakening of<br >interest in them. There have been television and stage plays<br >based on their lives, and, of course, many books have been<br >written about them. Why, then, another book? Partly because<br >many of these works are by people who never knew them and<br >so cannot present them properly. Others, of course, are by<br >those who knew them, but even many of these do not present<br >
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My parents: A differing view 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024