Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made

Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made by Derek Leebaert

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Unlikely Heroes provides an entirely new understanding of Franklin Roosevelt and his presidency. Only four people served at the top echelon of FDR's administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in April 1945, and they composed the tough, constructive, long-term core of government. These lieutenants built the great institutions raised against the Depression, implemented the New Deal, and were pivotal to winning World War II.

By no coincidence, each was as wounded in their different ways as the polio-stricken titan. Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace were also strange outsiders. Up until 1933, none would have been considered for high office. Still, each became a world figure, and it would have been exceedingly difficult for Roosevelt to transform the nation without them. By examining the lives of these four, a very different picture of how Americans saved their democracy and rescued civilization overseas emerges. Many of the dangers they overcame are troublingly like those we face today.

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St. Martin's Press, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2023