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Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Abbott, Philip The Exemplary President: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition . University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.
Asbell, Bernard. The F.D.R. Memoirs . Doubleday, 1973.
____________ When F.D.R. Died. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.
Alsop, Joseph. FDR: Centenary Remembrance. Viking, 1982.
Beilenson, Peter. The Wisdom and Wit of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Peter Pauper Press, 1982.
Bishop, James. FDR's Last Year, April 1944-April 1945. William Morrow, 1974.
Black, Conrad. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. Public Affairs, 2003.
Blum, John M. Roosevelt & Morgenthau. Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Brant, Irving. Adventures in Conservation with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Northland, 1988.
Buhite, Russell D. and Levy, David W., eds. FDR's Fireside Chats. University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Burns, James M. Roosevelt: the Lion and the Fox. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1956.
__________ Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970.
Burns, James M. and Dunn, Susan. The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001.
Collier, Peter. The Roosevelts: An American Saga. Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Cross, Robert F. Sailor in the White House: The Seafaring Life of FDR. Naval Institute Press, 2003.
Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Davis, Kenneth S. FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928. Putnam, 1973.
__________ FDR: The New York Years, 1928-1933. Random House, 1985.
__________ FDR: The New Deal Years, 1933-1937. Random House, 1986.
__________ FDR: Into the Storm, 1937-1940. Random House, 1993.
__________ FDR: The War President, 1940-1943. Random House, 2000.
Fehrenbach, T.R. F.D.R.'s Undeclared War, 1939 to 1941. D. McKay, 1967.
Ferrell, Robert H. The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945. University of Missouri Press, 1998.
Flynn, Edward J. You're the Boss. Viking Press, 1947.
Flynn, George Q. American Catholics and the Roosevelt Presidency, 1932-1936. University of Kentucky Press, 1968.
__________ Roosevelt and Romanism: Catholics and American Diplomacy, 1937-1945.
Greenwood Press, 1976.
Flynn, John T. The Roosevelt Myth. Devin-Adair, 1948.
____________ Country Squire in the White House. Doubleday, Doran, 1940.
Freedman, Max. Roosevelt and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1928-1945. Little, Brown and Co., 1967.
Freidel, Frank. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Little, Brown, 1952-1973.
Vol. l: The Apprenticeship.
Vol. 2: The Ordeal.
Vol. 3: The Triumph.
Vol. 4: Launching the New Deal.
__________ Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny. Little, Brown, 1990.
Gallagher, Hugh G. FDR's Splendid Deception. Dodd, Mead, 1985.
Gellman, Irwin F. Roosevelt and Batista: Good Neighbor Diplomacy in Cuba, 1933-1945. University of New Mexico Press, 1973.
__________ Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Gies, Joseph. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Portrait of a President. Doubleday, 1971.
Goldberg, Richard. The Making of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Triumph Over Disability. Abt Books, 1981.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Graham, Otis L., ed. Franklin D. Roosevelt, His Life & Times: An Encyclopedic View. G.K. Hall, 1985.
Guerrant, Edward O. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy. University of New Mexico Press, 1950.
Gunther, John. Roosevelt in Retrospect, a Profile in History. Harper, 1950.
Halprin, Lawrence. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. Chronicle Books, 1997.
Hassett, William. Off the Record with FDR, 1942-1945. Rutgers University Press, 1958.
Houck, Davis W. FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address. Texas A&M University Press, 2002.
_______ and Amos Kiewe. FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability. Texas A&M University Press, 2003.
Howard, Thomas C. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Formation of the Modern World. M.E. Sharpe, 2003.
Hunt, John. The Essential Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gramercy Books, 1995.
Jackson, Robert H. That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Jenkins, Roy. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Times Books, 2003.
Kimball, Warren. Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence. Princeton University Press, 1984.
Lash, Joseph P. Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers. Norton, 1971.
__________ Roosevelt & Churchill, 1939-1941: The Partnership that Saved the West. Norton, 1976.
Leuchtenburg, William. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. Harper & Row, 1963.
____________ Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Profile. Hill and Wang, 1967.
___________ In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan. Cornell University Press, 1989.
Levine, Lawrence W. Levine, Cornelia R. The People and the President: America's Conversation with FDR. Beacon Press, 2002.
Lippman,Theo, Jr. The Squire of Warm Springs, F.D.R. in Georgia, 1925-1945. Playboy Press, 1977.
Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Oxford University Press, 2000.
McElvaine, Robert S. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. CQ Press, 2002.
McJimsey, George T. The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. University Press of Kansas, 2000.
____________ Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency. University Publications of America, 2001-2003.

Vol. 1: "Packing" the Supreme Court and the Judicial Reorganization Bill, January-July 1937.

Vol. 2: The Lend-Lease Act, December 1940-April 1941.

Vol. 3: The Bank Holiday and the Emergency Banking Act, March 1933.

Vol. 4: Neutrality Legislation, 1939.

Vol. 5: The Social Security Act, June 1934-August 1935.

Vol. 6: Agricultural Adjustment Act and Farm Relief, March-May 1933.

Vol. 7: U.S.-Japan Relations: Trade Relations and the Sino-Japanese War, 1938-1940.

Vol. 8: The National Labor Relations Board and the Wagner Act.

Vol. 9: U.S. Japanese Relations, January-December 1941.

Vol. 10: The Gold Standard, Monetary Reform, and the Gold Reserve Act, April 1933-January 1934.

Vol. 11: FDR and Protection from Lynching, 1934-1945.

Vol. 12: FDR's Protest of the Treatment of Jews in Germany, 1938.

Vol. 13: The Presidential Campaign of 1940.

Vol. 14: The Yalta Conference, October 1944-March 1945.

Vol. 15: Coal Strikes, Labor, and the Smith-Connally Act, 1943.

Vol. 16: Promulgation of the National Recovery Act and the Establishment of the National Recovery Administration.

Vol. 17: FDR and the London Economic Conference.

Vol. 18: The Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the Regulation of Securities.

Vol. 19: Cuba, the Good Neighbor Policy, and the Abrogation of the Platt Amendment.

Vol. 20: Eleanor Roosevelt: The Role of the First Lady.
McKenna, Marian C. Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937. Fordham University Press, 2002.
Marks, Frederick W. Wind over Sand: The Diplomacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. University of Georgia Press, 1988.
Meyersohn, Maxwell, ed. The Wit and Wisdom of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Beacon Press, 1950.
Miller, Nathan.M FDR, An Intimate History. Doubleday, 1983.
____________ The Roosevelt Chronicles. Doubleday, 1979.
Nixon, Edgar B., ed. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1957.
Morgan, Ted. FDR: A Biography. Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Perkins, Frances. The Roosevelt I Knew. Viking Press, 1946.
Pike, Frederick B. FDR's Good Neighbor Policy. University of Texas Press, 1995.
Rauch, Basil. Roosevelt from Munich to Pearl Harbor. Creative Age Press, 1950.
Roosevelt, Elliott. As He Saw It. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946.
__________ A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House. G.P. Putnam, 1975.
____________ An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park. G.P. Putnam, 1973.
Roosevelt, Elliott, ed. F.D.R.: His Personal Letters. 4 vol. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947-1950.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 13 v. Random House, 1938-1950.
____________ The Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt Forty-eighth Governor of the State of New York, 1929-1932. 4 v. J.B. Lyon, 1930-1939.
Roosevelt, James. Affectionately, F.D.R.: A Son's Story of a Lonely Man. Harcourt, Brace, 1959.
____________ My Parents; A Differing View. Playboy Press, 1976.
Roosevelt, Sara D. My Boy Franklin. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1933.
Rosen, Elliot A. Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Brains Trust. Columbia University Press, 1977.
Rosenbaum, Herbert D. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Man, the Myth, the Era, 1882-1945. Greenwood Press, 1987.
Rosenman, Samuel I. Working with Roosevelt. Harper, 1952.
Ryan, Halford R. Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rhetorical Presidency. Greenwood Press, 1988.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Age of Roosevelt. Houghton Mifflin, 1957-1960.
Vol. 1: The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933.
Vol. 2: The Coming of the New Deal.
Vol. 3: The Politics of Upheaval.
Sherwood, Robert E. Roosevelt and Hopkins, an Intimate History. Harper, 1948.
Tugwell, Rexford G. The Democratic Roosevelt: A Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Doubleday, 1957.
____________ In Search of Roosevelt. Harvard University Press, 1972.
Tully, Grace. F.D.R., My Boss. Charles Scribner's, 1949.
Walker, Turnley. Roosevelt and the Warm Springs Story. A.A. Wyn, 1953.
Ward, Geoffrey C. Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905. Harper & Row, 1985.
__________ Closest Companion. Houghton-Mifflin, 1995.
__________ A First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt. Harper & Row, 1989.
Wills, Matthew B. A Diminished President: FDR in 1944. Ivy House, 2003.
Winfield, Betty H. FDR and the News Media. University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Woolner, David B., ed. FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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