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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol Publisher Comments Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court"s conservative majority left much of FDR"s agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal, but democracy itself, that stood on... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook Publisher Comments Available again in time for election season, Eleanor Roosevelt's most important book—a battle cry for civil rights As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham Publisher Comments Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands Publisher Comments A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial by Lawrence Halprin Publisher Comments Halfway between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, on axis with the Washington Monument, the stone walls of the stunning new FDR Memorial rise behind the cherry trees. The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, written by the world-renowned architect who... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley Publisher Comments A Los Angeles Times Bestseller In this groundbreaking account of the marriage, critically acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention---private and public---that kept FDR and Eleanor together. She reveals a... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Grandmre: A Personal History of Eleanor Roosevelt by David B. Roosevelt Publisher Comments First Lady, diplomat, social activist, political visionary - Eleanor Roosevelt towers as the most beloved woman of the twentieth century. Now, accompanied by over two hundred full-color and black-and-white, rarely seen archival and family photographs... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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FDR's Deadly Secret by Steven Lomazow Publisher Comments When Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945, his lifelong physician swore that the president had always been in perfect health. Twenty-five years later, his cardiologist admitted that the president suffered from hypertension, and that contrary to what... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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FDR and His Enemies by Albert Fried Publisher Comments Not since the Civil War was America so riven by conflict as it was during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. His bold initiatives and his willingness to break historic precedent in handling the Great Depression and the coming of World War II were... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Roosevelt Presence: The Life and Legacy of FDR by Patrick Maney Publisher Comments Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only twentieth-century president consistently ranked by historians with the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln. His leadership in the dark hours of the Depression and the Second World War has endowed him in the eyes of many... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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FDR: The War President: 1940-1943 by Kenneth S Davis Publisher Comments FDR: The War President opens as Roosevelt has been re-elected to a third term and the United States is drifting toward a war that has already engulfed Europe. Roosevelt, as commander in chief, statesman, and politician, must navigate a delicate balance... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Together We Cannot Fail: FDR and the American Presidency in Years of Crisis [With CD (Audio)] by Terry Golway Publisher Comments A biography like no other: hear the voice that led the nation out of darkness and into victory This vivid portrait shows a nation at its best and at its worst through the lens of the first American presidency truly impacted by the media age. An FDR... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II, the Defining Year by Blanche Wiesen Cook Publisher Comments Historians, politicians, feminists, critics, and reviewers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental Eleanor Roosevelt as the definitive portrait of this towering female figure of the twentieth century. Now in her long-awaited, majestic... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (Quality Paperbacks Series) by Eleanor Roosevelt Publisher Comments The long and eventful life of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was full of rich experiences and courageous actions. The niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she married a distant relative and Columbia University law student named Franklin Delano Roosevelt; he... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Extraordinary Mrs. R: A Friend Remembers Eleanor Roosevelt by William Turner Levy Publisher Comments Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the most admired women of this century. Revered throughout the world, she was known as First Lady, as chair of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and as standard-bearer for the causes she espoused. During the last ten... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kindred Souls by Edna P Gurewitsch Publisher Comments In a letter to David Gurewitsch, Eleanor Roosevelt's personal physician and friend during the last fifteen years of her life, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote, "Above all others, you are the one to whom my heart is tied...." This defines the intense relationship... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Russell Freedman Publisher Comments Traces the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from his birth in 1882 through his youth, early political career, and presidency to his death in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Houg Jackson Publisher Comments Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Too Close to the Sun: Growing Up in the Shadow of My Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor by Curtis Roosevelt Publisher Comments In this richly illustrated coming-of-age-story, FDRs eldest grandson recreates the strange and magical world of the Roosevelt White House. Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister arrived at the White House. The countrys “First... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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