Presents a multi-faceted study of the complex American president, detailing his diverse roles as commander-in-chief, leader of a social revolution, and statesman, and exploring his personal life and the physical disabilities that he hid ...
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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 ...
A chronicle of the initial fifteen weeks of the thirty-second president's administration evaluates FDR's accomplishments while offering insight into why they have been upheld as a measure for subsequent presidencies, in an account that ...
Iwan Morgan takes a fresh look at FDR, showing how his leadership enabled the United States of America to become the most successful country of the twentieth century.
FDR. and. the. Supreme. Court. Franklin D. Roosevelt oversaw a constitutional revolution that preserved the New Deal from judicial ... The new personnel that Roosevelt put on the Supreme Court consolidated this transformation.
All these stories intersect with the economic and social problems facing Roosevelt at home as the United States mobilizes for war.
FDR looks at the history of the Supreme Court in this period, FDRs unique ability to communicate directly with the people, and the legacy of these achievements.
While Herbert Hoover's and FDR's public image only tells a part of history, this book looks at how circumstances and the political realities buried the similarities in their views and defined their limits.
This is a collection of FDR's most stirring speeches, from his First Inaugural Address ('the only thing we have fear is fear itself"), to his speeches outlining the New Deal and opposing the "economic royalty" ("I welcome their hatred"), to ...