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Roberts, Jeremy.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
New York : Lerner, 2003
IL 5-8, RL 7.0
ISBN 0822500957
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance" --- FDR ­ First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933.
 In this book follow FDR from his boyhood home in Hyde Park, New York to becoming the 32nd president of the United States.  Determine for yourself whether FDR's paralysis helped form the man who so drastically altered our country.  Allow yourself to unwind while reading about his political innovations and maybe even unearthing some intimate details of his private life.  Whether it is FDR's 'New Deal' or the triumph of World War II this book gives you insight into the world of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  (Kenny Crosby, kenny-crosby@hotmail.com, college student)
SUBJECTS:     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
                       Presidents.

 
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