Here are the 10 best books to read this month, including poignant fiction, a Hollywood satire, and a work by Nobel winner ...

The Dells’ donations mean that children up to 10 years old in eligibile households could receive an additional $250 in their ...

Intellectuals, academics, and most of the media slapped a halo over FDR to consecrate both his welfare state and his warring.

“We have entered a period of nostalgia and reaction. We want the past back though we have no idea what it was.” Marilynn Robinson, The Death of Adam “I feel that I should have spent much more time ...

THE AGE OF ROOSEVELT, I—THE CRISIS OF THE OLD ORDER, 1919-1933 (557 pp.)—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.—Houghton Mifflin ($6). In 1919 a handsome young New York aristocrat with a politically useful name ...

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James I. Roosevelt became famous because of his family connection to former United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. James was the nephew of Franklin D. Roosevelt and part of the prestigious ...

Franklin Roosevelt rose to fame through his exceptional role as the 32nd President of the United States, serving four consecutive terms from 1933 to 1945. He led the country through two major crises, ...

COMPARED to Theodore Roosevelt, more recent occupants of the White House seem thin gruel indeed. The contrast doesn't hinge so much on TR's dervish-like energy and ebullient personality as on the ...

How can one write history so that it seems like a thriller? How does one write a biography without making the subject the centerpiece of the narrative? I have no idea if David Pietrusza asked himself ...

THIS is a ‘personal' rather than an ‘intimate’ biography, and the reader learns almost as much of Mr. Thayer’s views on recent public questions as of Roosevelt’s creed and conduct. The earlier ...