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Franklin Delano Roosevelt explores the life of a president who led the USA through the Great Depression and World War II. FDR was a rising politician when he unexpectedly lost use of his legs. People said his career was over. But FDR not only learned how to work as a disabled politician; he would take what he learned and use it to guide his nation through two of its worst crises.
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Freedman, Russell. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. New York: Clarion Books, 1990.
Harness, Cheryl. Franklin and Eleanor. New York: Dutton Children's Press, 2004.
O'Connell Pearson, P. Fighting for the Forest: How FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019.
WatchKnowLearn.org: Franklin Roosevelt and his time as president. Videos.
FDR with his wife Eleanor and children in 1919. Source.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Lundberg, Emma Octavia. "The New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration." Social Service Review 6, no. 4 (December 1932): 545-566.
Smith, Jean Edward. FDR. New York: Random House, 2007.
Tobin, James. The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Cooke, Alistair. Letter from America. BBC. The following episodes:
Cooke, Alistair. Special Report. CBS. April 24, 1945.
Famous Presidential Speeches: Franklin D. Roosevelt. Miller Center, University of Virginia.
FDR. American Experience. A David Grubin Productions, Inc., film; written and produced by David Grubin. PBS, 1994. Streaming (Kanopy).
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. A Florentine Films production; a film by Ken Burns; written by Geoffrey C. Ward; produced by Paul Barnes, Pam Tubridy Baucom, Ken Burns; produced in association with WETA Washington, D.C.; executive producer, Ken Burns. PBS, 2014. Streaming (Kanopy).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Resource Guide. Library of Congress.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Pederson, William D., ed. A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Blackwell Companions to American History. [Place of publication not identified]: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
[Below is a very abridged version of my five-page bibliography for the research I did some years ago for a children's book on the early history of Greenbelt. I drew upon that research for this book on President Roosevelt.]
Arnold, Joseph L. The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1971.
The City. Directed by Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke. Civic Films, 1939.
Conkin, Paul K. Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1959.
Myhra, David. "Rexford Guy Tugwell: Initiator of America's Greenbelt Towns, 1935 to 1936." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 40 (May 1974): 176-188.
Stein, Clarence S. Toward New Towns for America. Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, 1951.
Warner, George A. Greenbelt: The Cooperative Community. New York: Exposition Press, 1954.
Williamson, Mary Lou, ed. Greenbelt: History of a New Town, 1937-1987. Revised ed. Norfolk: Donning, 1997.
Greenfield, Eloise, and Lessie Jones Little. "Langston Terrace." Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir. New York: HarperTrophy, 1993. Originally published in 1979.
The Langston Terrace Dwellings Oral/Video History Project: A Documentary by The Langston Terrace Summer Camp 2013. Anacostia Community Outreach Center and Humanities Council of Washington D.C., 2013.
Quinn, Kelly Anne. "Making Modern Homes: A History of Langston Terrace Dwellings, a New Deal Housing Program in Washington, D.C." PhD diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
"Ten That Changed America: 10 Homes: Langston Terrace Dwellings." WTTW.