School of Law
That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of
Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert H. Jackson
Publisher: Oxford UP
2003, 336 pages
Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an
Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not
least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s close friends
and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early
1950s before Jackson’s untimely death, has remained unpublished for
50 years. Here is that newly discovered memoir.
“Lively, revealing and suddenly relevant.... Jackson’s memoir
sheds new light—not always flattering—on important events and on a
president who too often appears only in silhouette: a felt fedora,
an upward-tilting chin, a cigarette holder clenched in a
grin.”
—Jeff Shesol, The New York Times Book Review