1st Edition

My Own Story From Private and Public Papers

By Franklin Roosevelt Copyright 2011
470 Pages
by Routledge

461 Pages
by Routledge

461 Pages
by Routledge

This volume is in many ways Roosevelt's political autobiography. It permits Roosevelt, in his own words, to tell what he intended to do and what he tried to do as a political leader. It differs sharply from a memoir in that it explains why Roosevelt acted without offering justification or explanation. Donald Day chooses passages that reveal all Roosevelt's dimensions - his humor, personal... Read more
Prologue; I: Political Apprenticeship; One: Kidnapped into Politics; Two: In the Big Puddle; Three: “I Hate War; I Have Seen War”; Four: “Not a Landslide but an Earthquake”; II: The Long Wait; Five: Fate Deals a Hand; Six: “Good Neighborman”; III: Good Neighborman to New York; Seven: Back in the Main Channel; Eight: “The Objectives Were the Same”; Nine: “I Pledge You to a New Deal”; IV: Good Neighborman to the Nation; Ten: “The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”; Eleven: “One Hundred Great Days”; Twelve: He Kept Dealing New Hands; Thirteen: Straights and Flushes and Lots of Deuces; Fourteen: The Court Ordered the Old Deck; Fifteen: Declaration of Economic Independence; Sixteen: “I See One Third of a Nation Ill-housed, Ill-clad, Ill-nourished”; Seventeen: “Fire Burn, and Cauldron Bubble”; Eighteen: The First Cold War; Nineteen: “A Date That Will Live in Infamy”; V: One Gangland or One Neighborhood; Twenty: “Angered Forces of Common Humanity”; Twenty-One: “Hit Him and Hit Him Again”; Twenty-Two: Through the Mists: One Neighborhood; Twenty-Three: “To Go Back to My Home on the Hudson”; Epilogue

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Franklin Roosevelt