History/Political Science IN THE SHADOW OF FDR From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan Revised edition William E. Leuchtenburg "Analytically brilliant and anecdotally fascinating, In the Shadow of FDR is a memorable and moving study of the influence which our only four-term president had on all of the Chief Executives who followed him." —Representative Stephen J. Solarz, Democrat, New York "In the Shadow of FDR shrewdly sets forth the special cruelty of the dilemma Roosevelt's successors have all faced: 'If he did not walk in FDR's footsteps, he ran the risk of having it said that he was not a Roosevelt but a Hoover. Yet to the extent that he did copy FDR, he lost any chance of marking out his own claim to recognition.' "—New York Times Book Review "This important book ... helps shift our gaze from the surface events of our political past to broad currents of ideology and myth that run beneath them. As he has often done before, William Leuchtenburg has added new dimensions to our understanding of 20th-century American history." —Boston Globe "Professor Leuchtenburg has found a path through the recent presidencies that offers some out-of-the-ordinary views. It is a journey worth taking." —Washington Post Book World "This new study by William Leuchtenburg displays the qualities that have distinguished his other important work: an enviable grasp of the relevant literature about the period under consideration, an unrivalled familiarity with pertinent manuscript sources, an apt eye for the telling anecdote and quotation, a fluent prose, and above all, sound judgment. ... A scholarly epiphany to the life of Franklin Roosevelt."-Journal of American History

ISBN: 0801493939