Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin leads off the groundbreaking new Character Above All audio series with an illuminating exploration of the subject of her landmark bestseller No Ordinary Time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Recorded live at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin, Goodwin launches a series of lectures delivered by a team of historians, biographers, and journalists assembled by Robert Wilson to explore the Presidential character. Sharing their insight into the Presidents they have written about, these authors and scholars address the larger issue of the impact of the Presidential character on leadership and the creation of trust. A master historian speaking on the towering subject she knows best, Goodwin discusses Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the master politician who always waited for the right moment to convince people to go where he wished to take them. Character Above All is incomparable audio, crackling with the energy and excitement of a great mind at work and the intellectual urgency befitting a topic of lasting national importance.

In a second volume from a series of lectures by presidential scholars, the author of Truman sheds new light on Harry Truman, an ordinary American who became president in difficult times, and how he rose to become one of America's most extraordinary leaders.

New York Times bestselling author of D-Day, historian and biographer Stephen E. Ambrose lends his unmistakable voice to the groundbreaking Character Above All audio series with a return to the man so memorably profiled in his two-volume biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Recorded live at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, Ambrose continues a series of lectures delivered by a team of historians, biographers and journalists assembled by Robert Wilson to explore the Presidential character. Sharing their insight into the Presidents they have written about, these authors and scholars address the larger issue of the impact of the Presidential character on leadership and the creation of trust. Ambrose tells of Ike—a great and good man, who stood up to the generals and McCarthy, always exuding optimism, self-confidence, humor, and love of life. Character Above All is incomparable audio, crackling with the energy and excitement of a great mind at work and the intellectual urgency befitting a topic of lasting national importance.