Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano RooseveltModern · History, Biography, Nonfiction
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2008 · 896 pages · Nonfiction
34
Modern
★ 4.03 on Goodreads · 11K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 22 hours to read · about 6 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (Biography) finalist (2009). 4.03★ from 11K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
34Must-Read Score
- Readers52 out of 100 · counts 40%+23
- Critics30 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+11
- Bestseller1 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #132 of the 168 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #140 of the 154 history books we rank
- #464 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #1009 of the 1,404 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize (Biography) finalist (2009)
Reads as
True story
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