Documents the friendship between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their advisor following FDR's defeat as a vice-presidential candidate, describing the challenges the couple met in accordance with Howe's recommendations.
Carter adopted a number of programs that could trace their ancestry to the New Deal . ... Carter changed this situation by naming S. David Freeman chairman of the board and instructing him to effect a turnabout in policy .
FDR's formidable presence has cast a large shadow on the occupants of that office in the years since his death, and an appreciation of his continuing influence remains essential to understanding the contemporary presidency.This new edition ...
In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan
**** Reprint of the Cornell UP revision of 1985. The first edition (1983) is cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfather’s inauguration.
In July of 1941 Bush and his associate, Harvard president James Conant, received a copy of a draft report from the NDRC's liaison office in London. A British scientific group named the MAUD ...
The Long Shadow of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Meticulously compiled from more than 70 large-format, digitally restored period photos - some never before published, and most with extended captions - FDR: A Life in Pictures documents as no other book can the remarkable living legacy of ...
Curtis Roosevelt knew what it was like to live with a president. His grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Albert Fried brings out the tremendous drama in Roosevelt's ideological and personal struggle with five influential men: ex-New York governor and presidential candidate Al Smith, the enormously popular "radio priest" Charles E. Coughlin, ...