Coming of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men -- FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur -- transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into a global superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of <b>A Peace to E
In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012
- Category
- Fiction
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