By successfully seeking a third term in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt shattered a tradition that was as old as the American republic. The longstanding yet controversial two-term tradition reflected serious tensions in American political values. The framers of the Constitution, wit…
A striking exploration of the formative years in FDR's unparalleled public career during World War I.
Re-examines the final years of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, using the evidence of medical reports and photographs to argue that the real cause of the president's death was a skin cancer that had spread to his brain.
Re-examines the final years of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, using the evidence of medical reports and photographs to argue that the real cause of the president's death was a skin cancer that had spread to his brain.
Explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal hours that followed the attack.
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941,?a date which will live in infamy." History would prove him correct; the events of that day?when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor?ended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDR's presidency, and swept America into Wor…
Since World War II, American historians have traditionally sided with the Loyalist supporters of the Spanish Civil War, validating their arguments that the pro-Nationalists were un-American for backing an unplalatable dictator. In Arguing Americanism, author Michael E. Chapman e…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the author comments, "was one of those individuals who, because he rose to leadership in national and world affairs in times of crisis, threw a long shadow ... his shadow lay over America for a long time in the sense that his absence was felt and compa…