ABSTRACT

This compact study assesses the personality, political and economic policies in war and peace, of America's longest-serving president and one of the most important political figures of the twentieth century, Franklin. D. Roosevelt. Also providing an overview of the America over which Roosevelt presided, the book offers a concise survey of both domestic and foreign affairs.

chapter |8 pages

FDR, a man for all seasons

chapter |7 pages

The slump

chapter |11 pages

Origins of the New Deal

chapter |9 pages

Heyday of the New Deal

chapter |8 pages

Decline of the New Deal

chapter |8 pages

Isolationism and foreign dangers

chapter |10 pages

Into the war

chapter |11 pages

War and the home front

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion