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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Reference

Brinkley, Alan. "Roosevelt, Franklin Delano." American National Biography Online. Feb. 2000. http://www.anb.org/articles/06/06-00567.html. (Access is restricted to Pace University students, faculty, staff, or other subscribers to American National Biography online)

Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times. An Encyclopedic View. Edited by Otis L. Graham, Jr. and Meghan Robinson Wander. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985.


Books

Black, Conrad. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.

Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Freidel, Frank Burt. Franklin D. Roosevelt: a Rendezvous with Destiny. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front. Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Jackson, Robert Houghwout. That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Sunstein, Cass. The Second Bill of Rights : FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need it More Than Ever. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Ward, Geoffrey C. Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905. Harper & Row, 1985.

__________. A First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt. Harper & Row, 1989.


Primary Sources

Courage in a Dangerous World : the Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

F. D. R.: His Personal Letters. (4 volumes). Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt; edited by Elliott Roosevelt. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947-1950.

FDR's Fireside Chats. edited by Russell D. Buhite and David W. Levy. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York : Random House, 1938-.

Web Sites

"The Four Freedoms Speech," Annual Message to Congress, January 6, 1941

Photographs from the FDR Library
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/photos.html

March of Dimes Story
http://www.marchofdimes.com/aboutus/789_821.asp

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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.udhr.org/history/frbioer.htm

The History of Social Security
http://www.ssa.gov/history/history.html

FDR's Statements on Social Security
http://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrstmts.html

New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/

The Four Freedoms from the Norman Rockwell Museum
http://www.nrm.org/exhibits/current/four-freedoms.html

FDR's undelivered Jefferson Day Address (Written the day before he died - April 11, 1945)
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/FDRspeeches/FDRspeech45-1.htm

Rendezvous with History: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt from the Poughkeepsie Journal
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/projects/fdr/index.shtml

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

America From the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 / http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

The American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/

The American Experience: The Presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/

Franklin D. Roosevelt. First Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1933.
http://bartleby.com/124/pres49.html

Second Inaugural Address, Wednesday, January 20, 1937.
http://bartleby.com/124/pres50.html

Third Inaugural Address. Monday, January 20, 1941.
http://bartleby.com/124/pres51.html

Fourth Inaugural Address. Saturday, January 20, 1945.
http://bartleby.com/124/pres52.html