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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

The opening of Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, the latest book from biographer Robert Dallek (born in 1934), seems to be setting up the same kind of treatment.

To remember FDR, who profoundly changed America with his New Deal programs, take a look at some fascinating facts about his ...

In historian Alan Brinkley's biography, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he calls the former president the most important individual of the 20th century. Roosevelt presented national concerns to the ...

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.

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: 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 ...