{"product_id":"9780544227842","title":"The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e“This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt.” —\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e “Masterly.” —\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eA dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II\u003c\/b\u003e  Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, \u003ci\u003eThe Mantle of Command\u003c\/i\u003e offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s masterful — and underappreciated — leadership of the Allied war effort. After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton’s account drives toward Operation Torch — the invasion of French Northwest Africa — and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. \u003ci\u003eThe Mantle of Command\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate, sweeping look at a great President in history’s greatest conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026212569328,"sku":"9780544227842","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544227842_p0.jpg?v=1763712502","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544227842","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}