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One of today's premier biographers has written a modern,
comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith
combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary
source material to provide an engrossing narrative of one of
America's greatest presidents.
This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We
see how Roosevelt's restless energy, fierce intellect, personal
magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace permitted him to
master countless challenges throughout his life. Smith recounts
FDR's battles with polio and physical disability, and how these
experiences helped forge the resolve that FDR used to surmount the
economic turmoil of the Great Depression and the wartime threat of
totalitarianism. Here also is FDR's private life depicted with
unprecedented candor and nuance, with close attention paid to the
four women who molded his personality and helped to inform his
worldview: His mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, formidable yet ever
supportive and tender; his wife, Eleanor, whose counsel and
affection were instrumental to FDR's public and individual
achievements; Lucy Mercer, the great romantic love of FDR's life;
and Missy LeHand, FDR's longtime secretary, companion, and
confidante, whose adoration of her boss was practically limitless.
Smith also tackles head-on and in-depth the numerous failures and
miscues of Roosevelt's public career, including his disastrous
attempt to reconstruct the Judiciary; the shameful internment of
Japanese-Americans; and Roosevelt's occasionally self-defeating
Executive overreach. Additionally, Smith offers a sensitive and
balanced assessment of Roosevelt's response to the Holocaust,
noting its breakthroughs and shortcomings.
Summing up Roosevelt's legacy, Jean Smith declares that FDR, more
than any other individual, changed the relationship between the
American people and their government. It was Roosevelt who
revolutionized the art of campaigning and used the burgeoning mass
media to garner public support and allay fears. But more important,
Smith gives us the clearest picture yet of how this quintessential
Knickerbocker aristocrat, a man who never had to depend on a
paycheck, became the common man's president. The result is a
powerful account that adds fresh perspectives and draws profound
conclusions about a man whose story is widely known but far less
well understood. Written for the general reader and scholars alike,
"FDR" is a stunning biography in every way worthy of its subject.
"From the Hardcover edition."
For courses in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience,
Learning and Memory, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of
Psychology. The first book that fully integrates information about
the brain and neural processing into the standard curriculum in
cognitive psychology. Based on a need for a text that could
accurately, productively, and seamlessly integrate information on
both the brain and neural processing, Edward E. Smith (Columbia
University) and Stephen M. Kosslyn (Harvard University) created
Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain 1.e. Without question, the
study of cognition has progressed enormously over the past decade.
Most importantly, much of the recent progress in cognitive studies
has come from the advent of cognitive neuroscience, which uses
neuroscientific methods and data to address psychological issues.
However, throughout years of academic teaching, the authors came to
realize that no currently available book was able to summarize and
make accessible the major findings, theories, and research the
field had produced. Now, in this text's first edition, these issues
have been addressed. Using findings in neuroscience to illuminate
and motivate key distinctions in cognitive psychology, the authors
have written a cognitive psychology book that is informed by
neuroscience - the first of its kind and one poised to set a new
standard in undergraduate cognitive studies.
After the death of the younger Carl Linnaeus in 1783, the entirety
of the Linnean collections, including the letters received by the
elder Linnaeus from naturalists all over Europe, was purchased by
the English botanist James Edward Smith (1759-1828), later
co-founder and first president of the Linnean Society of London. In
1821, Smith published this two-volume selection of the letters
exchanged by Linnaeus pere et fils and many of the leading figures
in the study of natural history, revealing some of the close ties
of shared knowledge and affection that bound the European
scientific community at that time. Where necessary, Smith
translates the letters into English, with the exception of those
written in French, which are presented in the original. Volume 1
illuminates the epistolary relationships of Linnaeus senior with
Peter Collinson, John Ellis and Alexander Garden, providing a very
brief biography of each. Garden's letters to Ellis also feature
prominently.
After the death of the younger Carl Linnaeus in 1783, the entirety
of the Linnean collections, including the letters received by the
elder Linnaeus from naturalists all over Europe, was purchased by
the English botanist James Edward Smith (1759-1828), later
co-founder and first president of the Linnean Society of London. In
1821, Smith published this two-volume selection of the letters
exchanged by Linnaeus pere et fils and many of the leading figures
in the study of natural history, revealing some of the close ties
of shared knowledge and affection that bound the European
scientific community at that time. Where necessary, Smith
translates the letters into English, with the exception of those
written in French, which are presented in the original. The varied
correspondents of Linnaeus senior, whose letters appear in Volume
2, include the botanists Johann Dillenius and Bernard de Jussieu,
and the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Originally published in 1832, this two-volume account of the life
of Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828) was posthumously compiled by
his wife, Pleasance (1773-1877). Smith trained originally as a
doctor, but his independent wealth enabled him to pursue botany.
Hugely influenced by the work of Linnaeus, he benefited greatly
from the purchase of the latter's library and herbarium in 1783,
upon the advice of his friend, Sir Joseph Banks. He was highly
regarded throughout Europe as a botanist, and in 1788 founded the
Linnean Society. He published various botanical works, of which the
most important was The English Flora (1824-8), and assisted in the
publication of many more. His wife recounts his character as well
as his achievements, using both narrative and 'various familiar and
domestic letters' to do so. Volume 1 includes letters from Banks
and Samuel Goodenough, bishop of Carlisle and Smith's close
botanical friend.
Originally published in 1832, this two-volume account of the life
of Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828) was posthumously compiled by
his wife, Pleasance (1773-1877). Smith trained originally as a
doctor, but his independent wealth enabled him to pursue botany.
Hugely influenced by the work of Linnaeus, he benefited greatly
from the purchase of the latter's library and herbarium in 1783,
upon the advice of his friend, Sir Joseph Banks. He was highly
regarded throughout Europe as a botanist, and in 1788 founded the
Linnean Society. He published various botanical works, of which the
most important was The English Flora (1824-8), and assisted in the
publication of many more. His wife recounts his 'religious, social
and scientific character' as well as his achievements, and Volume 2
includes correspondence from Alexander von Humboldt, and concludes
with an appendix in which short papers by Smith present a variety
of topics.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), botanist and patron of science, was a
pivotal figure in eighteenth-century intellectual circles. He
travelled around the world with Captain Cook as naturalist on the
Endeavour (1768-1771), exploring first Tahiti, then Australia, New
Zealand and Indonesia, and contributed GBP10,000 of his personal
wealth to help finance the expedition. He became President of the
Royal Society and scientific adviser to the Royal Gardens at Kew,
counting George III as a personal friend. He both helped plan the
first penal colony in New South Wales, and bred Merino sheep to be
farmed there. He promoted the geological mapping of England,
Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia, and the transfer of
breadfruit from the Pacific to the West Indies (the objective of
the Bounty voyage that ended in mutiny). This 1911 study, based on
extensive archival research, was the first detailed biography of
this remarkable and influential man.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
"The Christian Science Monitor - St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
"Magisterial."--"The New York Times"
In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a
portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and
revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth
president. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course
from Abilene, Kansas, to West Point and beyond. Drawing on a wealth
of untapped primary sources, Smith provides new insight into Ike's
maddening apprenticeship under Douglas MacArthur. Then the whole
panorama of World War II unfolds, with Eisenhower's superlative
generalship forging the Allied path to victory. Smith also gives us
an intriguing examination of Ike's finances, details his wartime
affair with Kay Summersby, and reveals the inside story of the 1952
Republican convention that catapulted him to the White House.
Smith's chronicle of Eisenhower's presidential years is as
compelling as it is comprehensive. Derided by his detractors as a
somnambulant caretaker, Eisenhower emerges in Smith's perceptive
retelling as both a canny politician and a skillful, decisive
leader. He managed not only to keep the peace, but also to enhance
America's prestige in the Middle East and throughout the
world.
Unmatched in insight, "Eisenhower in War and Peace" at last gives
us an Eisenhower for "our" time--and for the ages.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Praise for "Eisenhower in War and Peace"
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" A] fine new biography . . . Eisenhower's] White House years need
a more thorough exploration than many previous biographers have
given them. Smith, whose long, distinguished career includes superb
one-volume biographies of Grant and Franklin Roosevelt, provides
just that.""--The Washington Post"
"Highly readable . . . Smith] shows us that Eisenhower's] ascent
to the highest levels of the military establishment had much more
to do with his easy mastery of politics than with any great
strategic or tactical achievements."--"The""Wall Street
Journal"
"Always engrossing . . . Smith portrays a genuinely admirable
Eisenhower: smart, congenial, unpretentious, and no ideologue.
Despite competing biographies from Ambrose, Perret, and D'Este,
this is the best."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"No one has written so heroic a biography on Eisenhower] as this
year's "Eisenhower in War and Peace" by] Jean Edward Smith."--"The
National Interest"
"Dwight Eisenhower, who was more cunning than he allowed his
adversaries to know, understood the advantage of being
underestimated. Jean Edward Smith demonstrates precisely how
successful this stratagem was. Smith, America's greatest living
biographer, shows why, now more than ever, Americans should like
Ike."--George F. Will
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