Can you imagine a person, other than family, who dedicates much of their life to your success? Louis Howe was such a man for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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FDR’s Shadow is an excellent biographical account of the life of Louis Howe, close friend and key advisor to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Although it presents a very detailed account of the lives and activities of these important historical figures, it reads like an excellent novel,
I studied history in college and I knew little of Louis Howe. When I thought of FDR and who influenced him and the government of the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, I considered men like George Marshall, Cordell Hull, Harry Hopkins and Henry Stimson. This biography presents a man who may have made the Roosevelts the political icons they became.
This book presents the life of Howe, and much of the life of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. In these pages we witness the growth of Franklin Roosevelt from a civic minded citizen to a political force. Howe was the ramrod behind that growth.
Howe learned politics the best way, by association with people and their lives. Howe labored for years in the resort town of Saratoga New York with the workers, the maids, cooks and storekeepers who made the resort function. Louis listened to the conversations of people of wealth and power. Then Howe became a journalist who could regularly interview the politicians, industry executives and power brokers of the day.
Louis Howe used his vast political knowledge in a quest to enhance the future of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This story makes a fascinating book. FDR’s Shadow is an excellent biography. I highly recommend it.
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