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Franklin D. Roosevelt A Biography
Jeffrey W. Coker
ISBN: 0-313-32337-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32337-9
192 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2005
List Price: $31.95 (UK Sterling Price: £22.95)
Discount Price: $15.98 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Greenwood Biographies
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  • An excellent reference.
    —MBR Internet Bookwatch/Library Bookwatch     10/1/2005
Description: A brief, thorough introduction to the life and times of the most influential and effective president in modern America, this volume is ideal for students researching the Great Depression or World War II.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the best and most influential presidents in U.S. history. Successfully guiding the stricken nation through the Great Depression and World War II, FDR also forever changed the office of the President of the United States and the future course of American politics. The scion of a wealthy upstate New York family, and cousin to President Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt was beloved by ordinary Americans and reviled by the elite as a class traitor for his New Deal policies. Here, FDR's life from childhood to midlife struggle with crippling polio to his death in office in 1944 is detailed, offering both personal and public perspectives.

Starting with his privileged prep school and Harvard upbringing, readers follow this masterful politician's development as New York senator and Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I. During a brief retreat from the public eye, Roosevelt is struck by polio and regroups personally and professionally. Next comes his triumphant return to national politics and his election to president in 1932. The pivotal years during which he was elected president an unprecedented four times during the Depression and World War II round out the final third of the book. An annotated bibliography and index conclude the work.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
    Preface and Acknowledgments
    Timeline
    Beginnings
    Learning the Ropes
    Washington
    At War
    Defeat and Tragedy
    The Return
    Victory
    Launching the New Deal
    Challenges At Home and Abroad
    A War President
    Home Again
    Afterword
    Bibliographic Essay
About the Author: Jeffrey W. Coker is Assistant Professor of History at Belmont University. He is the author of Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma (2002) and Presidents Taylor through Grant, 1849-1877: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents (Greenwood, 2002).
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