If the Republican Party has spent the last 30 years looking for another Ronald Reagan, the Democrats have spent the last 70 looking for another Franklin D. Roosevelt. The latter case of longing is ...

“Franklin Delano Roosevelt” By Alan Brinkley Oxford University Press, $12.95, 129 pages FDR At a time of crisis in the American economy, one critic of federal programs charges the ...

Following this political loss came a personal one. In 1921, FDR contracted polio ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

In the summer of 1921, 39-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt, an emerging Democratic Party star, fell ill with a pain in his back, which soon became paralysis in his legs. The eventual diagnosis ...

Presidential historian Robert Dallek, author of, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, talks to Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep about the parallels between the presidencies of FDR and Donald Trump.

Call this a biography by indirection. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defined by competing individuals and movements: Huey Long, Father Coughlan, Al Smith, the Liberty League, Earl Browder and the ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) stands out not only as a Democratic leader but also as the longest-serving president in American ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States' 32nd president, had many Christmas traditions with his family and staff during his time in office. Roosevelt even grew Christmas trees on his New York land.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life Robert Dallek. Viking, $40 (704p) ISBN 978-0-525-42790-2. Dallek (Camelot’s Court), an acclaimed biographer of earlier American presidents, covers nearly ...

He provides a brief history lesson on the Nazis and the Holocaust that began 90 years ago and implies that members of the party under Franklin D. Roosevelt then would be appalled by today’s anti ...