Franklin D. Roosevelt The People's President (Great Lives Series) [Paperback]

Witness history in the making as you turn the pages of time and discover the fascinating lives of famous explorers, leaders of twentieth-century politics and government, and great Americans.
 
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” With these resounding words and innovative, often controversial, programs Franklin D. Roosevelt stirred a nation to confront and triumph over the Great Depression of the 1930s, the gravest domestic crisis since the Civil War. Roosevelt then led the U.S. to victory over twin menaces from abroad—Nazi Germany and Japan—in World War II. It was a dazzling display of sustained, imaginative leadership that changed the presidency, and the country, forever.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: The People’s Presidentdepicts the life and times of one of America’s best-loved presidents. Roosevelt paid little heed to his personal adversity—the polio that crippled his legs. Listen to his radio addresses—the famed “fireside chats”—and see how he showed the American people just how much a president can do.1
Pearl Harbor
 
U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt hit the campaign trail in 1940 seeking reelection to a third term. That fall, in Cleveland, Ohio, he delivered a speech that many consider the most eloquent of his political career. Looking out at his audience and speaking in his usual, resonating tone, he asked for their support: “There is a storm raging now, a storm that makes things harder for the world. And that storm, which did not start in this land of ours, is the true reason that I would like to stick by these people of ours until we reach the clear, sure footing ahead.”
 
The “storm” that Roosevelt referred to was the warfare that was dividing the nations of Europe and causing chaos in Asia. During his second term, Roosevelt had succeeded in keeping America out of the affairs of warring countries l£S