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Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905 PG_Gift_Guide her senile mother-in-law needs constantBefore Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong willed youth, the center of a rarefied world. In Before the Trumpet, the award winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that worldHyde Park on the Hudson and Campobello Island, Groton and Harvard and the Continentto recreate as never before the formative years of the man who would become the 20th centurys greatest president. Here,