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Becoming FDR

The Personal Crisis That Made a President

Jonathan Darman

2023

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

A family affair: Roosevelt was just 31 in 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson appointed him assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy — a post previously held by his cousin Teddy.

The Making of FDR

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s struggle against polio transformed him into the man who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.

by Jonathan Darman via The Saturday Evening Post on April 5, 2024

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