1932
The Rise of Hitler and FDR-Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny

Not bad, but I wanted to like this one more. Basically, there are two books in one: the first is about FDR’s election in 1932, and the second is about the Nazis’ rise to power over multiple elections by 1932. It is one chapter about each topic back and forth throughout. My favorite parts were about t......more

Disappointing, fairly long-winded book on two world leaders who were opposed to one another during WWII. The author points out that Roosevelt was not the leader we remembered, his love affair with his wife’s social secretary (Lucy Mercer), and his hard driven rise to become president of the United S......more

'1932' is the newest in a long line of 'Annal Histories' by David Pietrusza, whose more recent work ('1920: The Year of the Six Presidents', '1948', etc.) has focused on watershed election years in presidential politics. In his latest outing, Pietrusza returns to a personality that had been a bit pla......more

An exciting tale with an impressive amount of research. The author delivers what he promised, focusing on the political careers of both men without going into other subjects of the age that are not relevant to understand both men as politicians. The format where both stories are running in parallel i......more