New Releases by Geoffrey C. Ward

A biographer who knows it well tours Franklin Roosevelt''s home on the Hudson and finds it was not so much the President''s castle as it was his formidable mother''s.

The opium trade is remembered as a British outrage: English merchants, protected by English bayonets, turning China into a nation of addicts. But Americans got rich from this traffic - among them, a young man named Warren Delano. He didn''t talk about it afterward, of course. And neither did his grandson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The limitations polio impose on FDR affected every waking hour of his life from the onset of the disease in 1921 until his death, twenty-four years later.

Most Presidents seem embarrassed by the ambition that fueled their drive to power. To hear them tell it, the Presidency just happened to them, like adolescence.

Text and lavish photographs present the art and treasures of the Maharajas of India.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt''s honeymoon was a lavish grand tour through a sunny, hospitable Europe. It was also filled with signs of the mutual bafflement that would one day embitter their marriage.