Who is Franklin Roosevelt and what is his importance in the nonfiction book, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen,…?

Franklin Roosevelt was President of the United States during the outbreak of World War II. He was able to draw on the advice of the group known as the Wise Men in the formulation of United States foreign policy even though he formulated most foreign policy on his own. He died in April 1945.