Fdr biographies

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FDR Biography

The Early Years

Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education. He attended Groton (), a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts, and received a BA degree in history from Harvard in only three years (). Roosevelt next studied law at New York's Columbia University. When he passed the bar examination in , he left school without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a prominent New York City law firm. He entered politics in and was elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally Republican home district.

In the meantime, in , he had married a distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The couple had six children, five of whom survived infancy: Anna (), James (), Elliott (), Franklin, Jr. () and John

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Biographies and Features

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd President of the United States, architect of the New Deal and Commander-in-Chief during World War II. Articles highlight significant documents, photographs, and motion picture footage from the archival and museum collections of the FDR Library.

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady, first Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, prolific writer, and advocate for democracy, civil rights, and social justice. Articles highlight significant documents, photographs, and motion picture footage from the archival and museum collections of the FDR Library.

Great Depression & New Deal

Roosevelt's "bold, persistent experimentation" in response to the national economic crisis. Article topics include public works, economics, housing, art, and more.

World War II

On December 7, - a date that still lives in American memory - America entered World War II. Read about Pearl Harbor, the D-

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Bibliography: Franklin D. Roosevelt

AuthorTitle

Abbott, Philip

The Exemplary President: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition.

University of Massachusetts Press,

Alter, Jonathan

The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.

Simon and Schuster,

Asbell, Bernard

The F.D.R. Memoirs.

Doubleday,

When F.D.R. Died.

New American Library,

Alsop, Joseph

FDR, A Centenary Remembrance.

Viking Press,

Angelo, Bonnie

First Families: The Impact of the vit House on Their Lives.

William Morrow,

Badger, Anthony J.

FDR: The First Hundred Days.

Hill and Wang,

Barrett, John Q., ed.

That Man: An Insider's Portrait of FDR / Robert H. Jackson.

Oxford University Press,

Beilenson, Peter

The Wisdom and Wit of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Peter Pauper Press,

Beir, Robert L.

Roosevelt and the Holocaust: A Rooseveltian Examines the Policies and Remember