The FDR Story (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Catherine Owens Peare
- First Published: 1962
- Time of Work: 1882–1961
- Setting: New York, Massachusetts, Canada, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Georgia, Morocco, and other locales throughout the United States and Europe
- Principal Characters: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Louis Howe, Alfred E. Smith, Marguerite “Missy” Le Hand, Basil O’Connor
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Leadership, World War II, Politicians, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Presidents, Biography, Polio
- Locales: New York, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Canada, Maryland, Massachusetts, Morocco
Form and Content
The FDR Story is a swiftly moving, information-filled biography of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. Catherine Owens Peare follows Franklin Delano Roosevelt through history chronologically, recounting his youth in Hyde Park, New York, along the Hudson River, his relationship with his parents and extended family, and his schooling at Groton and then Harvard and Columbia universities. The book then describes his entrance into politics, his courtship of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, and his ascendance to the New York statehouse and a...
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