A striking exploration of the formative years in FDR's unparalleled public career during World War I.

"Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, but President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. She's determined to rise to the challenges of her new marriage--from the bloodthirsty press to the first World War. When peace talks begin in Europe, she attends at Woodrow's side. But Woodrow's delicate health takes a dramatic turn for the worse. In her determination to...

"The story of the last two years of Theodore Roosevelt's life, from April 1917 to January 6, 1919-a time when he was plagued by illness and injury, denied leadership of his own regiment in World War I, and lost his son Quentin, but also one when he made plans for another run at the Presidency and set the stage for the 1918 rise of the Republican Party." --