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By April of 1944, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt have occupied the White House for more than eleven years. The President is secretly convalescing in South Carolina from a recently diagnosed bout of congestive heart failure while the war rages overseas and his family is under press scrutiny at home. Despite his failing health, FDR has ambitious postwar plans for his country: to see the horrific struggle through to victory, and then to bring the United...
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Who was Franklin Roosevelt? A boy who loved sailing, riding horses, and football? A man left crippled by polio? The only president of the United States elected four times? All of the above! Find out more about the real life Franklin Roosevelt in this illustrated biography.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material...
One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material...
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At the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted his party's nomination for president. The Democratic platform advocated the repeal of Prohibition, citing that alcohol sales would generate revenue, which was especially crucial during the Great Depression. Roosevelt was elected president that November, and the Twenty-First Amendment, which ended Prohibition, was ratified in 1933.
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On November 7, 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his fourth term as U.S. president. Roosevelt easily defeated Republican candidate Thomas Dewey, who later ran against Roosevelt's vice president, Harry S. Truman, in the 1948 presidential election. No president before Roosevelt had ever been elected to a third term, let alone a fourth, and in 1951 Congress approved the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which limited a president...
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Public dissatisfaction with Herbert Hoover's handling of the Great Depression led to a landslide victory for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election. Roosevelt, who had campaigned on the promise of a wide-ranging social assistance program known as the "New Deal", won 57.4 percent of votes cast and 472 electoral votes to Hoover's 59 votes.
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In 1940 President Roosevelt signed the first ever military conscription bill during peacetime, requiring men 18 to 35 to register for draft. Although the United States had not yet entered World War II, the threat of the Axis powers loomed across the Atlantic Ocean. After the U.S. entry into the war, the age restriction was expanded to include men 18 to 65. In total, more than 13 million men were enlisted through the Act.
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In 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his third term in the White House; the first U.S. president to do so. Roosevelt faced Republican challenger Wendell Willkie, who criticized Roosevelt's campaign for a third term by suggesting that the American presidency was becoming a dictatorship.
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In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the Judicial Reform Bill, popularly known as his "court-packing" plan, which stated that any Supreme Court justice who did not retire by age 70 could be replaced by presidential appointment. His aim was to create a Supreme Court that was friendlier to his New Deal programs. The plan sparked controversy, with Roosevelt's opponents accusing him of trying to assume an amount of power unbecoming of a...
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At the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the nomination for president, pledging that he would create "a new deal" for the American people. Shortly after his election, Roosevelt announced his New Deal program, which would help to correct economic hardships resulting from the Great Depression.
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On June 10, 1940, shortly after Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war, President Franklin Roosevelt made a speech in Charlottesville, Virginia, pledging U.S. assistance to the Allies via the Lend-Lease Act. Through the Lend-Lease Act, Roosevelt sought to evade restrictions mandated by the Neutrality Act of 1937 by "lending" weapons to countries that needed help defending themselves from attacks already in progress. U.S.-made divebombers were...
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During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the medium of radio to deliver a series of "Fireside Chats". In the broadcasts, Roosevelt attempted to garner public support for his New Deal programs. The increasing use of broadcast technology revolutionized the presidency. As presidents became more responsible for directly communicating with the public, charisma and rhetorical style played increasingly important roles in defining...
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Severe public dissatisfaction over Republican president Herbert Hoover's handling of the Great Depression led to Democratic landslide victories in the 1932 election, including the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency. In his inaugural speech, Roosevelt, who campaigned on the strength of the relief programs he instituted while governor of New York, believed that in overcoming the Great Depression, "[t]he only thing we have to fear is...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt became the 32nd U.S. President in 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. During his four terms as president, Roosevelt instituted a number of radical relief programs, collectively know as the New Deal, which aimed to stabilize the U.S. economy and create jobs. The unemployment rate had soared to over 20 percent during the Depression.
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A sweeping biography of the life and political career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt draws on archival materials, public speeches, interviews with family and colleagues, and personal correspondence to examine FDR's political leadership in a dark time of Depression and war, his championship of the poor, his revolutionary New Deal legislation, and his legacy for the future.
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"The fifth book in the Making of America series, Franklin D. Roosevelt examines the life of America's 32nd president: his birth into one of America's elite families, his domineering mother, his marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt, his struggle with polio, and his political career. A Democrat, Roosevelt (1882-1945) won a record four presidential elections and is the longest-serving US President. During his time in office, he led the country through the...
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On April 12, 1945, five months after being elected to his fourth term as president, Franklin D. Roosevelt died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at his vacation home in Warm Springs, Georgia. A funeral train carried his body back to the White House, where he lay in state before being buried at his estate in Hyde Park, New York. Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeded Roosevelt as president.