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• Less understood is how the American home front affected the course of the war, and how the war, in turn, altered the face of American life.
• This book is the story of that home front, told through the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the circle of friends and associates who lived with them in the family quarters of the White House during World War II.
• The president’s alter ego, Harry Hopkins, occupied the Lincoln Suite, two doors away from the president’s suite.
• the president’s need to have people around him constantly,
• Through four years of war, despite strikes and riots, overcrowding and confusion, profiteering, black markets, prejudice, and racism, he kept the American people united in a single cause. There were indeed many times, as those who worked with him observed, when it seemed that he could truly see it all—the relationship of the home front to the war f...