Listen free for 30 days

  • Franklin and Winston

  • An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
  • Written by: Jon Meacham
  • Narrated by: Len Cariou
  • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

Try for $0.00
1 credit a month, good for any title to download and keep.
The Plus Catalogue—listen all you want to thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts, and audiobooks.
$14.95 a month plus applicable taxes after 30 day trial. Cancel anytime.
Franklin and Winston cover art

Franklin and Winston

Written by: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Len Cariou
Try for $0.00

$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $29.74

Buy Now for $29.74

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Tax where applicable.

Publisher's Summary

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation". In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship and a unique one: a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together and exchanging nearly 2,000 messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.

Born in the 19th century and molders of the 20th and 21st, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations, yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the 20th century.

Meacham's new sources, including unpublished letters of FDR's great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd; the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman; and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill's joint company, shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.
©2003 Jon Meacham (P)2003 Random House, Inc.
Biographies & Memoirs
Show more Show less

What the critics say

"Franklin and Winston is a sensitive, perceptive, and absorbing portrait of the friendship that saved the democratic world in the greatest war in history." (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
"This is at once an important, insightful, and highly entertaining portrait of two men at the peak of their powers who, through their genius, common will, and uncommon friendship, saved the world. Jon Meacham's Franklin and Winston takes its place in the front ranks of all that has been written about these two great men." (Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation)

What listeners say about Franklin and Winston

Average Customer Ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.ca reviews

Audible.com reviews

Amazon Reviews
No reviews are available
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Kimberly
  • Kimberly
  • 2020-06-05

Parallel of Two Extraordinary Lives

Get to know Winston and Franklin before, during, and post partnership. It is a cross between a romance and a historical piece. So I will call it a histomance between two iconic figures of WWII. Worthy of every bit of the 9 hours.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for JOSEPH
  • JOSEPH
  • 2017-08-24

Awesome piece of history!!

So wonderfully written. You forget how monumental these two were in fighting Hitler. Such strong men here!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Amazon Customer
  • Amazon Customer
  • 2015-02-23

AN EPIC PERFORMANCE IN DEED <br />

Thank you Jon Meacham for this great great piece of work. And to Len Cariou who carried me though this great journey with your epic performance!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for JoshuaSingleton
  • JoshuaSingleton
  • 2017-12-17

Captivating performance!

Reading this has opened my interest to history. The story is captivating and the performance unbelievably good! Anyone who is thankful for freedom would enjoy this read!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Dickie
  • Dickie
  • 2022-05-18

History to be Remembered

This should be required reading by our youth today. It's an honest look into the struggles and bravery of two men that made our current world possible.

One of the best narrations I have ever heard!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!