His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...
William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.
It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration ... Escorted to the podium by his son, James, Roosevelt spoke the immortal words which would come to identify both his character and ...
Franklin was born at Hyde Park, New York on 30th January 1882, son of James and Sara. He attended Harvard University and Columbia law school. On 17th March 1905 he married Eleanor, a daughter of ...
Leuchtenburg’s notable books include “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal” and ... A postal clerk’s son born in New York City in 1922, William Edward Leuchtenburg was so fascinated ...