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When michael beschloss was a student at Williams College, he studied with James MacGregor Burns, the landmark historian of the years of Franklin Roosevelt. Michael's undergraduate thesis produced both his first book, "Kennedy and Roosevelt," about the turbulent relationship between Joseph P. Kennedy and FDR, and an enduring interest in the role individual character plays in the making of history. "I found that Roosevelt was the greater figure because Roosevelt was the greater human being," says Michael, a longtime NEWSWEEK contributor.