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Traces the life of the only president to be elected four times. Includes Internet links to Web sites, source documents, and photographs related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Provides information about the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and discusses his role in American history as president during the Great Depression and World War II.

A biography of the First Lady who, despite her shyness, followed her conscience and devoted her life to helping others and working for peace.

Analyzes the relationship between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill focusing on their similarities and differences.

First of a projected series of 4 volumes interpreting the history of our times in terms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This volume presents a study of the years preceding Roosevelt's first term.

Chronicles Franklin Roosevelt's struggle to expose powerful New York officials with mob ties in 1932.

Well-known and little-noticed aspects of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and how his politics changed the United States.

Studies what happened to American society during the Great Depression and the New Deal reforms.

Just after her eleventh birthday in 1950 and at the height of the frightening childhood polio epidemic, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. It was a place famously founded by FDR, "a perfect setting in time and place and strangeness for a hospital of crippled children." There the young Shreve meets Joey Buckley, paralyzed from the waist down and determined to leave Warm Springs able to play football. The dual shocks of first love and separation from her fiercely protective mother propel Shreve careening between bad girl rebellion to overachieving saint. This portrait of the psychic fallout of childhood illness ends with a shocking collision between adolescent drive and genteel institution. During Shreve's stay at Warm Springs, the Salk vaccine was discovered; Shreve is one of the last generation of Americans to have survived childhood polio.--From publisher description.