"His Last Bow", published in September , is one of 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in Strand.
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Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Joseph Lelyveld, who presided over the New York Times at the end of its golden age as a printed newspaper, in this fascinating history describes the end of another golden age--the end of the era of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Covering the period from the Tehran conference of November , in which FDR promised Stalin that D-Day would occur by the end of May it was only six days late to his death in April , the author portrays the weakening president determined to carry on although suffering from, among other things, an enlarged heart.
In order to reconstruct the physical condition of the weakening president's last days, the author is forced to rely on diaries and comments made by his doctors, McIntyre and Bruenn, because his medical records mysteriously "vanished" in Fortunately he does his job well, and the tale is fascinating. Then, too, there are the quick sketches of the historical figures Truman, Churchill and Stalin, of course, as well as lesser known figures of the time and the machinations that FDR employed while seeking a fourth term. Perhaps he couldn't face up to his approaching end, but he was astute enough to have replaced Henry Wallace, his third-term vice president, with Harry Truman.
One of the figures who played a significant role behind the scenes was FDR's daughter, Anna--this was new to me. It would be Anna who would accompany the president to the infamous Yalta conference, where Churchill, Stalin, and FDR met for the final time.
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Lelyveld, by the way, is not one of those who think FDR gave away the store to Stalin at that conference, although as he tells us certainly his attention span was not what it once was. Underlying it all was FDR's determination to create a working United Nations, something his first boss, Woodrow Wilson, whom he served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, had been unable to do.
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Lelyveld works wonders with this material. I almost teared up as he describes how the president was making plans to attend the opening session of the UN on April 25, The war was won. Lelyveld notes, when Japan surrendered, Truman "addressed the nation, pronouncing the name Roosevelt only once, in a single-sentence tribute simultaneously reverential and spare, showing that his predecessor was already receding into history. One person found this helpful. See all 87 reviews. See all customer images. Most recent customer reviews.
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