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Virginia Lewick, and Alycia Vivona, were helpful beyond description. The copyediting was done by Lynn Anderson, Dennis Ambrose was the production editor, and Simon Sullivan was the book’s designer.

To my agent, Elizabeth Kaplan, I am especially grateful for navigating the tricky shoals of contract negotiation and helping to place this book with Random House. I cannot say too much about the pleasure of working with Vice President and Executive Editor Robert Loomis. Mr. Loomis is justly regarded as the nation’s premier editor of nonfiction and is a man of wonderful warmth and diligence. This is his fiftieth year at Random House, and I am pleased that FDR has appeared in time to mark the occasion.

JEAN EDWARD SMITH is the author of twelve books, including highly acclaimed biographies of Chief Justice John Marshall, General Lucius D. Clay, and Ulysses S. Grant (a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist). A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia, Smith taught at the University of Toronto thirty-five years before joining the faculty at Marshall University, where he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science.