Follows the life and career of America's thirty-second president, who led the country through the Depression and was elected to four terms in the White House.
Robert Dallek's Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life takes a fresh look at the many compelling questions that have attracted all his biographers: how did a man who came from so privileged a background become the greatest presidential ...
In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United States—and explains how the social fabric of American ...
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Looks at the life and career of the thirty-second president of the United States, the only person to be elected president four times.
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Focuses on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's childhood and summarizes his achievements as president.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands astride American history like a colossus, having pulled the nation out of the Great Depression and led it to victory in the Second World War.
Traces the life of the thirty-second president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose years in office led the country through the Depression and the Second World War.
This thought-provoking pre-presidential biography, full of fascinating facts like these, describes the remarkable and vivacious man who would guide the nation through World War II. Noteworthy photographs and interesting fact boxes add to ...