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A whole lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential information, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to rate on the lives of America's most significant men and women in enough time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Franklin Delano Roosevelt might be America's ideal 20th century chief executive, but there's no question that he was the most unique. A well-connected relative of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR was groomed for greatness until he was struck down by polio. Nevertheless, he persevered, rising through NY politics to reach the White House equally the country experienced its greatest task since the Civil War, start his presidency with one of the very most iconic lines ever before spoken during an inaugural address. For over a decade, President Roosevelt threw everything he previously at the Great Depressive disorder, and then threw everything the country experienced at the Axis powers during World Conflict II. Finally, he succumbed to illness in the center of his fourth term, just before the Allies triumphed in the war. American Legends: The Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt masks all the well-known features of Roosevelt's life and presidency, but it also humanizes the nation's longest serving chief executive, covering Roosevelt's family and famous wife, the philosophical change Roosevelt led the country through with the brand new Offer, and the tenacious fighter who battled polio and Adolf Hitler. Along the way, you will learn interesting facts about FDR you never knew, including his faraway familial romance with wife Eleanor.
