Foreign Affairs; “few will deny the pleasure her book provides”
Boston Globe: “There may have been stranger bedfellows in the long run of history, but not many, and almost certainly none with that amount of combined power. It is that power that makes Butler’s volume a powerful book, and an irresistible read.”
New Yorker: Butler relays entertaining details (when Stalin doodled, he drew Siberian wolves) and emphasizes Roosevelt’s unwavering resolve to keep Stalin “inside the tent," Particularly compelling is her account of FDR’s death.
WSJ: “Had the Stalin-Roosevelt “partnership” extended beyond the war’s end, she contends, it would have created a harmonious postwar world in which there was no Cold War.