On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World

Prize–winning author James Srodes offers a vivid and scintillating portrait of the twelve young men and women who, on the eve of World War I, came together in Washington, D.C.'s tony Dupont Circle neighborhood. They were ambitious for personal and social advancement, and what bound them together was a sheer determination to remake America and the rest of the world in their progressive image.

At one residence–known ironically as The House of Truth–lived Felix Frankfuter, a future Supreme Cour...