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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780743246019
ISBN: 0743246012
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: May 08, 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Jonathan Alter's bestselling and critically acclaimed account of how FDR lifted the country from despair and paralysis and transformed the presidency for all time.




Rating: - Warts and All
The Defining Moment is extremely relevant to the current period, the transition between Presidents Bush and Obama. The parallels are impressive: pressure for the President-elect to start acting, vast economic problems, and even an international economic conference.

Alter demonstrates that FDR was not the messiah, but he does so without vilifying and blaming him for prolonging the depression. FDR got a lot right and he got a lot wrong, but the fact that he kept trying with his forceful ... Read More

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Rating: - Thank You Jonathan Alter
Thank you, Jonathan Alter for writing such a compelling study of great leadership. Thank you, also for including such influential figures and accomplished women as Lorena Hickok and Frances Perkins. You are not just an historian; you are an herstorian as well.

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Rating: - Masterful portrait of FDR's rise to president and his first '100 Days'
Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek, and frequent contributor at MSNBC has written an excellent book about the rise and early presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt entitled 'The Defining Moment.' In concise yet articulate chapters Alter paints a compelling portrait of FDR, ther president who took the helm at what was, up until that point, the direst financial and societal crisis the nation had seen perhaps since the Civil War, and certainly in the 20th century.

Now known as 'The ... Read More

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Rating: - Excellent and Very Well Written
The book is well written, well documented and very interesting. It is factual, and easy to understand. I am a Historian and have found this book well above average. I highly reccomend this for reading both alone and in classrooms.

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Rating: - Is this guy beig paid by the word?
Ideally, an historical "slice of life" book would tell you more about FDR than Jonathan Alter, but this is not the case with this dry account. Alter spends more time obsessing about Elanor's questionable relationship with Lorena Hickok, and characterizing FDR as an elitist snob who got lucky, than relating any new information, or describing FDR's thought processes or reasoning. Getting through it was torture.

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