Franklin D. Roosevelt

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FDR took office as free market capitalism looked set to collapse and authoritarian clouds gathered everywhere, and saved democracy from a potentially fatal crisis. First, he put the government's resources to work alleviating poverty and pulling the economy up by its bootstraps; then he led America into a world war that positioned it to win the peace against world communism. That our century closes amid unprecedented American affluence, with democracy and free markets the prevailing global wisdom, owes more to FDR than to any other individual leader.
Read the full story by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Appreciation: Bill Clinton writes on FDR

Photo Essay: A photographic tour of the life and times of Franklin Roosevelt

Web Resources
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum
FDR's presidential library offers the Web's widest selection of information on FDR

The New Deal Network
An historical retrospective of the Roosevelt era with photos, interviews and special features on such New Deal projects as the Tennessee Valley Authority

FDR Online
The campaign, which turned violent, propelled Gandhi and the Indian National Congress into national prominence in India and led to a wave of protests stopped only by Gandhi's arrest in 1922 on grounds of sedition.

Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt
General information from the National Park Service on Hyde Park, the Roosevelts' family home on the Hudson River.

Social Security Administration: History Page
The complete history of Social Security from its kickoff in 1935, with primary documents, a collection of related speeches, games and an FAQ

Character Above All: Franklin D. Roosevelt
A detailed essay on FDR's life and times by Pulitzer Prize-winning Roosevelt biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin, presented in PBS' online companion to its TV program on the American presidency, "Character Above All."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
The National Park Service's overview of the 42 years of work put into erecting a memorial to FDR on the Washington Mall.




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