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The Roosevelt I knew

By Perkins , Frances , Franklin Delano; Roosevelt , Frances; Roosevelt , Franklin Delano; Perkins

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2011
ISBN
9781101534052, 1101534052, 978-1-101-53535-6, 1101535350
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
368 kB (376472 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
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Description

A vivid and intimate portrait of the New Deal president by the first woman ever appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. When Frances Perkins first met Franklin D. Roosevelt at a dance in 1910, she was a young social worker and he was an attractive young man making a modest debut in state politics. Over the next thirty-five years, she watched his career unfold, becoming both a close family friend and a trusted political associate whose tenure as secretary of labor spanned his entire administration. FDR and his presidential policies continue to be widely discussed in the classroom and in the media, and The Roosevelt I Knew offers a unique window onto the man whose courage and pioneering reforms still resonate in the lives of Americans today.

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