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COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...Peter Collier and David Horowitz have made a business of probing the underbellies of grand American families in books about the Kennedys and the Fords. In The Roosevelts: An American Saga (Simon and Schuster; 542 pages; $27.50), written by Collier with research help from Horowitz, Theodore is portrayed as the head of a dynasty. Never mind that his family and Franklin's were distant cousins connected mainly by Eleanor, who was Theodore's niece. Her father was Theodore's brother Elliott, a dandy who late in life was capable of consuming six bottles of liquor before lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Growing Up Roosevelt | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...Collier's portraits of the two great Roosevelts and Eleanor seem canned, although his real focus is on their role as parents and the dispiriting effects of a famous childhood. Theodore's very presence could be overbearing; Franklin was distant. Eleanor resented her husband, and "the children grew up virtually without control," writes Collier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Growing Up Roosevelt | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...boors even without famous parents. Elliott wanted to be a "big man" and ended as a hard-drinking Rotarian in Arizona. Franklin Jr. drank copiously, served in Congress and was a distributor of Fiat cars. Anna Roosevelt feuded bitterly with her mother; her husband deserted her and killed himself. Collier catalogs these events in a plodding, too decorous way, but his problem is basic: with the exception of Eleanor and the two great Presidents, these Roosevelts were an uninspired group who, in the end, weren't much of a dynasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Growing Up Roosevelt | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

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