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Title: A Crashing Bore
Review: I love reading history, so I was really looking forward to reading this book. It was a great disappointment. The author clearly adored Eleanor, and she gets a very thorough treatment in the book. The President, though, remained a total mystery. What made him think? What did he really think? What made him such a great leader? Don't read this book for answers to those questions because they are not there. At bottom, the book was a lengthy and ponderous treatment of Eleanor Roosevelt and her influence on the President and policy. That story could have been told in about 300 fewer pages.
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