James MacGregor Burns Comes Full Circle

James MacGregor Burns rightly can be called the Dean of Roosevelt Biographers.  His first volume on Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1956), was barely edged out of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for biography by John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage.  Its companion volume, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1970), won the 1971 … Continue reading James MacGregor Burns Comes Full Circle