Books like Franklin D. Roosevelt by Frank Burt Freidel
Franklin D. Roosevelt's biography by Frank Burt Freidel, a Harvard University historian, focuses on the young FDR before his presidency and the Depression and wartime periods. This one-volume complete biography, detailing Roosevelt's life and achievements, is expected to become the standard one-volume biography.
First publish date: 1952
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Political Biography
Authors: Frank Burt Freidel
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