<div><b><i>Longlisted for the National Book Award</i></b><br><br><b>“This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt.”<br>—<i>Christian Science Monitor</i><br><br>“Masterly.” — <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br><b>A dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II</b><br><br>Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members,<i>The Mantle of Command</i> offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s masterful — and underappreciated — leadership of the Allied war effort. After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton’s account drives toward Operation Torch — the invasion of French Northwest Africa — and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. <i>The Mantle of Command</i> is an intimate, sweeping look at a great President in history’s greatest conflict.</div>