»He could not walk, but he walked. He could not stand, but he stood – he stood in four political campaigns and used the golden voice with which nature had endowed him to plead for the privileges of completing his work.« Einmal mehr verleiht Thomas Mann hier seiner Verehrung für den 1945 verstorbenen amerikanischen Präsidenten Franklin D. Roosevelt Ausdruck. Nachdem er in seinen späten Dreißigern a...