FDR

Description for FDR by Finis Farr: In personal, almost conversational tones, the noted biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jack Johnson and Margaret Mitchell now gives us a sophisticated portrait of Franklin D Roosevelt. Finis Farr was a producing editor of "The March Of Time" during several of the New Deal years, and he calls his dramatic skills into play as he makes use of his own detailed recollections of the era. "I had a good front row seat for the entire show," he writes. Now we share it. Presenting new material on the war President as a child at Hyde Park, a schoolboy at Groton, an undergraduate at Harvard, Farr show how these influences shaped Roosevelt into a young man much like the ineffectual, imitation-British, upper-class New York heroes of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Yet he pays tribute to FDR's courage when polio struck him down. Though Mr. Farr likes Roosevelt as a person and thinks he would have made a delightful "downtown lawyer, college and hospital