Roosevelt and Howe is a joint biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
and one of his principal advisors. Louis Howe was not only FDR's
first political aide, but the only one who also became an intimate
personal friend. Other than Harry Hopkins in the late 1930s, he was
the only advisor whom Roosevelt trusted completely to serve his
interests without distracting personal ambition or a shadowy
private agenda. This book is the story of their separate early
lives, of the rare chances which brought them together and of their
totally intertwined careers after 1912. It deals with their
political strategies, their division of labor in a daily
partnership, and their feelings for each other, despite frequent
differences about tactics.
Louis Howe had a haphazard and fragmented career as an upstate
New York newspaperman running a family-owned weekly and filling in
for Manhattan papers in Albany during legislative sessions. Struck
down by illness, Roosevelt turned to Howe to run his campaign for
reelection to the New York Senate in 1912. The story carries them
through Roosevelt's World War I career as Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, a disappointing run for the Vice-Presidency in 1920,
various attempts at business and Roosevelt's desperate brush with
death from polio. It centers on the hectic twenties as Roosevelt
fought to walk again and Louis struggled to make his crippled boss
an eager and viable candidate for the Presidency. It follows them
through a dynamic term as Governor of New York and the victorious
1932 campaign for the White House.
Howe went to the White House with the Roosevelts. He was
Secretary to the President but was soon eclipsed by the enormous
scope of Roosevelt's affairs and hisown quickening illness. He died
in 1936, just short of Roosevelt's crucial first campaign for
reelection. He could not have imagined how well his protege would
do without him, yet FDR always suffered from the lack of a close,
reliable intimate who could say "No" to him. This role was not
filled until Harry Hopkins came to share his circle of power.
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