'Franklin D. Roosevelt' examines the now-forgotten political opposition FDR faced at every stage
Nov 07, 2017
3 minutes
More than any US President except perhaps Washington and Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt tempts biographers to hero-worship.
On one level, this is almost understandable. The country's only three-term president (and freshly elected to a fourth when he died in April of 1945), Roosevelt has been portrayed by countless chroniclers as the man who rose above the polio that crippled his legs, the man who drew the country out of the depths of the Great Depression, and the man who led the free world to
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