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Washington Post selects 'FDR' as one of top 5 non-fiction books of ’07

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Washington Post, in its Dec. 2 issue, selected FDR, a comprehensive biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Marshall University professor Jean Edward Smith, as one of the top five non-fiction books of 2007.

Other books in the top five are Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee; Ralph Ellison: A Biography, by Arnold Rampersad; The Unnatural History of the Sea, by Callum Roberts; and The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, by Diane Ackerman.

In reviewing FDR, Jonathan Yardley, book critic for the Post, said FDR is “a model presidential biography. Now, at last, we have the book that is right for the man.”

FDR, an 880-page hardcover book, was released last spring. Smith was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his biography of Ulysses Grant.

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