April 12, 1945: Roosevelt dies and Truman takes command mid-war, reshaping World War II strategy and the postwar world order.
Joseph Persico, a best-selling historian and biographer who wrote about espionage during World War II and the leadership and romantic inclinations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and who was co-author of ...
Editor’s note, February 13, 2026: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler came to power within five weeks of each other, in 1933; they both died in office 12 years later, Roosevelt on April 12, ...
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