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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography

Jeffrey W. Coker

Traces the life of the thirty-second president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led the country through the Depression and the Second World War.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jeremy Roberts

Looks at the life and political career of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president in U.S. history to be elected to four terms, discussing his youth, marriage, and service to the country during the Great Depression and World War II.
Calendar of the speeches and other published statements of ...

Calendar of the speeches and other published statements of ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

4, 19 16 (clipping in Scrap- book 8, p. 90, Group 9). 492. Speech on behalf of Congressman James P. Maher, Democrat, candidate for reelection, Myrtle and Franklin Avenues, Brooklyn, N.Y., fourth meeting, Nov. 3, 1916. See entry 489 .
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, ...

Robert Dallek

Since the original publication of this classic book in 1979, Roosevelt's foreign policy has come under attack on three main points: Was Roosevelt responsible for the confrontation with Japan that led to the attack at Pearl Harbor?
Eleanor Roosevelt: More Than a First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt: More Than a First Lady

Joanne Mattern

A brief biography of the First Lady, spouse of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is particularly known for her work for human rights.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny

Frank Freidel

Although he details Roosevelt's life before his presidency, the focus is on the Depression and wartime periods. This will probably become the standard one-volume biography. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox

Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox

James MacGregor Burns

The first political biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. “A case study unmatched in american political writings” (Newsweek). Index; photographs.
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935

The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935

Arthur Meier Schlesinger

The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first tumultuous years in the White House.
1898-1903

1898-1903

Theodore Roosevelt

The rest of the children are absorbed in a pet bear which has been sent me by some West Virginian admirers. Mrs. Roosevelt and I are now spending a few days at Albany. Always yours 1 88 1 • to peter manuel wise Roosevelt Mss. Oyster Bay ...
White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. ...

White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. ...

Byron W. Daynes

In White House Politics and the Environment: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, Byron W. Daynes and Glen Sussman study the multitude of resources presidents can use in their attempts to set the public agenda.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

A hardcover re-release provides a Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt that the Chicago Tribune called "a classic." By the author of Colonel Roosevelt.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Russell Freedman

"The author of a splendid, Newbery Award-winning Lincoln (1987) uses a similar approach to another monumental figure.
On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the ...

On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the ...

James Srodes

By the end of this story, on the eve of WWII, the group came together again for a second chance at history–this time the result was the United Nations.
Patriots' Days

Patriots' Days

John Parlin

Presents brief biographies of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lee, Franklin Roosevelt and Kennedy and information about the momuments and memorials erected to their memory.
The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen

Godwin Chu

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the U.S. Army to form the 99th Fighter Squadron, which was to be the first squadron of black pilots.
Liberalism and Its Discontents

Liberalism and Its Discontents

Alan Brinkley

Discusses the impact of Franklin Roosevelt, Robert Penn Warren, T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, Allard Lowenstein, and Oral Roberts upon American political culture
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Alan Brinkley

Throughout the book, Brinkley elegantly blends FDR's personal life with his professional one, providing a lens into the President's struggles with polio and his somewhat distant relationship with the first lady.
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Keith Pruitt

Roosevelt was in many ways a revolutionary President changing the office and the country in important ways. Join historian Keith Pruitt in this introductory look at Theodore Roosevelt.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political ...

Nancy Beck Young

Conversely, how did changes in political beliefs alter cultural activities? This volume presents a series of intriguiing essays that examine these and related questions.
At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin: A Brief History of the ...

At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin: A Brief History of the ...

Edwin Wolf

complete as they are, of the Library Company's holdings. At the time, no one looked upon the results of the Carnegie grant as anything but strengthening the status and stature of the Ridgway Library and its research materials. At the annual ...
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to ...

American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to ...

Neil Smith

Roosevelt's, Bowman was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy.".
Landing

Landing

Haynes Johnson

A Nazi plan to infiltrate key institutions and to assassinate President Franklin Roosevelt challenges the ingenuity of the three Americans who can thwart it--government investigator Henry Wyatt Eaton, FBI employee Constance Aiken, and Leon ...
The National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints: a cumulative ...

The National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints: a cumulative ...

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A SOB* NM 0715163 NNC NM 0715169 DNLM CU NM 0715157 DLC WaS ICRL OLak 0C1 OU 0C1W-H NN MB Montague, Josrph Franklin, 1893- The modern treatment of hemorrhoids, by Joseph Franklin Montague ... foreword by Harlow ...
Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort

Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort

Chip Berlet

Roosevelt quoted in Thomas G. Dyer, Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race, p. 131. 41. Thomas G. Dyer, Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race, ch. 6; Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants, pp. 214, 219–222; Higham, Strangers in the ...

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