The Public and Private Lives of FDR (1933-1945)

As the longest-serving president in U.S. history and leader through two of the nation's worst crises, Franklin Delano Roosevelt set the standard for the modern presidency. Our two-part biography traces America's 32nd president from his early years as the pampered scion of a wealthy family, to his devastating paralysis from polio, to his twelve years in the White House through the the Great Depression and World War II.

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