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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

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

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.

This came at a pivotal point in his political career. Roosevelt would have been Vice President under James Cox if the Democrats won the 1920. But he’d retreated to private life after 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 Delano Roosevelt — the architect of modern labor law and workers’ rights — wrote in 1937 that collective bargaining does not belong in the public sector. President Trump’s ...