Call this a biography by indirection. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defined by competing individuals and movements: Huey Long, Father Coughlan, Al Smith, the Liberty League, Earl Browder and the ...

To remember FDR, who profoundly changed America with his New Deal programs, take a look at some fascinating facts about his ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.” This is the story of how the first ...

In historian Alan Brinkley's biography, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he calls the former president the most important individual of the 20th century. Roosevelt presented national concerns to the ...

David Gergen writes that though President Joe Biden is no Franklin D. Roosevelt, his first 100 days in office bear some important similarities to his Democratic predecessor – particularly in ...

The latter case of longing is likely to intensify with Robert Dallek's new single-volume biography, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, a 700-page tome devoted to demonstrating "what great ...

Appearing by remote access from Austin, Texas, H.W. Brands talked about the political career and the presidential tenure of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Mr. Brands is the author of [Traitor to His… ...

In the first 19 months of his presidency, President Joe Biden’s accomplishments echo themes and priorities from the major initiatives of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum provided the video. The presidential library tradition began in 1940 with the completion of the Franklin D. Roosevelt library in Hyde Park, New York.

Experts say Biden’s record doesn’t match out-of-the-gate accomplishments by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed a flurry of legislation to fight the Great Depression, or Lyndon B. Johnson, who ...