I found this on my bookshelf after finishing the Brands book and realized I hadn't read it, so I decided I'd fix that. Okay book, although I have to say that the relationship between the two men almost didn't justify a standalone book. It did add some detail to what I got out of the Brands book, but really nothing that I didn't already know - that FDR repeatedly used Churchill for his own ends, and successfully resisted Churchill's attempts to use him for the British Empire's ends. That Churchill was hurt by the perceived slights but repeatedly got over it. Nothing really new there. That a more general history would cover this more specific one surprised me a bit, but there you are. Even with the monumental correspodence and the titanic scale of what these two men were doing, at bottom they only met a few times and while the nature of their relationship was extraordinarily personal as world leaders go, in terms of material to talk about, it was a little thin. The story unavoidably becomes about the substance of what they did together, and not the friendship, and that's why I think this book may have been much ado about a moderately small something.
