Hard bargain

With Hard Bargain, Robert Shogan, the distinguished author of Riddle of Power and None of the Above, offers the definitive account of one of World War II's most dramatic chapters - the inside story of how Franklin D. Roosevelt secretly brokered a deal to provide the destroyers Churchill needed to save Britain from destruction, irrevocably altering the postwar world order. Not fully understood until now, this episode transformed the role of the American presidency and paved Roosevelt's way to a third term. At the center of the momentous events of 1940 are these two extraordinary leaders, whom…