Coker, Jeffrey W

Presents a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wheelchair-bound president who optimistically led the United States through more than a decade of economic, social, and political problems, chronicling his life from his Harvard background to his role in national politics.

Presents primary documents showing the positions of the American presidents spanning the years 1849-77 on important issues of the times, as well as those of their opponents; includes such topics as the Fugitive Slave Act, the military draft, and the acquisition of Alaska.