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Finished "Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life" by Stanley Weintraub.
This book concentrates on 8 years in FDR's life, when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson administration. After reading it, I understood how critical this period was in preparing him for the trials of the Presidency. In this period he learned how the federal civil bureaucracy and the upper levels of the American military worked, how to run a large government enterprise, and how the legislative branch operated vis-a-vis the executive branch. Because of this, he was able to hit the ground running in 1933, at one of the critical points in history.
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