Roosevelt: The lion and the fox by James macgregor burns

this book took me over a year to finish. From putting it down and reading something else multiple times, probably two. I have read several presidential biographies but this was, by far, the most difficult to be passionate about reading. I can see what an interesting and unique life Roosevelt lead but, after so many pages of it, I care less now than I ever did before. Burns gave a very academic look at the life, times and actions of FDR. This book would have felt at home in a college level history class. Not the kind of exciting leisure I was hoping it would be. FDR rose easily through the ranks in part because of his family and inherited station and, in greater part, through his innate social and manipulative skills. He was inspirational, brilliant and conniving and we all treasure him for how he used the system he was given.