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    Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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    Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    By Matthew Gilmore

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    "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days." —FDR, from his First Inaugural Address

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt followed in the footsteps of the political career blazed by his cousin (and uncle by marriage), President Theodore Roosevelt. Beginning with local politics, he went on to serve a stint in Washington, then became governor of New York, and then won the presidency. His was a charisma similar to that of TR, but derived from his Delano side. His sunny disposition carried him through many trials, including disabling paralysis. As president his was a fearsome task, with two principal thrusts—restoring hope to an America mired in the Great Depression and leading the nation to victory in the Second World War.

    FDR became an American icon. The hundreds of photos in Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from the collections of the FDR presidential library, portray him throughout his life and career, revealing a presidency marked by the twin struggles for economic recovery and military victory. FDR's life in pictures, published here in striking black and white, captioned and with introductions, is sure to enthrall every reader interested in the biography of this renowned American leader.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateSep 1, 2007
    ISBN9781618586308
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      Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Matthew Gilmore

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

      TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY MATTHEW GILMORE

      FDR speaking on the stump. (1930)

      HISTORIC PHOTOS OF

      FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

      Turner Publishing Company

      200 4th Avenue North • Suite 950

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      Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

      Copyright © 2007 Turner Publishing Company

      All rights reserved.

      This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2007929602

      ISBN-13: 978-1-59652-400-2

      Printed in the United States of America

      07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14—0  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      YOUTH (1882–1910)

      POLITICAL MAN (1911–1933)

      PRESIDENT (1933–1945)

      NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS

      Formal portrait of FDR, Eleanor, and their two children, Anna and baby son James. FDR had left Columbia University Law School without a degree and joined the Carter, Ledyard & Milburn firm. His mother, Sara, gave them a new Charles A. Platt–designed New York brownstone at 49 East 65th (she owned the adjacent number 47). (1908)

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This volume, Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of a number of organizations and individuals.

      One cannot do research on Franklin Delano Roosevelt without acknowledging the dedicated and resourceful folks at the FDR Presidential Library, from which the photographs come.

      And a word of thanks to all those scholars, editors, and memoirists of FDR who have delved into his life and career and produced insightful material.

      —Matthew Gilmore

      PREFACE

      FDR was one of the most significant of American presidents. He came into office facing unprecedented economic crisis, for which he prescribed a New Deal. That New Deal would radically change American government and transform politics for generations. On the heels of the struggle to restore the economy came the effort to fight and win the Second World War.

      The photographs published in this volume encompass the entire career of the man who would become America’s 32nd president. Here we see the atmosphere of his childhood—his family, friends, education. Here are his parents, James and (the much younger) Sara (Sallie) Delano Roosevelt. Sallie would remain a constant, influential, and steadying presence in FDR’s life until her death a mere four years before his own. His youth as the only child of his parents had its compliment of friends, cousins, aunts, uncles, and even a niece and a nephew of similar age as playmates.

      Travel was a constant in his life. There were trips to spas in Europe and to the windswept resort Campobello in Canada. These all had the effect of inculcating and deepening his lifelong love of things maritime. Much of his leisure was spent at sea—on his vacations from political responsibilities he would go sailing. As a political candidate, he would travel thousands of miles crosscountry in pursuit of the presidency. He would travel again and again as president—touring the country to project his concern and make personable connections. And he would retreat to Warm Springs, Georgia, for relief from the whirl of political life in Washington.

      He was an avid collector—model boats, stamps, books—so much so that his collections would become the first presidential library. It is from that institution these photographs come.

      Much of this is the ordinary life of any man of his class, yet FDR had overweening ambitions. Despite an odd political defeat or two, and his crippling illness, he would persist and succeed in his presidential dreams, backed by strong political advisors. Photographs illustrate his political campaigns from the first in 1910 to the last in 1944. The outlines of his career were unwittingly laid by his cousin (and uncle to his wife) President Theodore Roosevelt. Emulating his uncle, he followed much the same path—from local political office, to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to vice-presidential candidate, and finally to the presidency. A fierce partisan, the program he offered the nation when he swept into office was unspecific. As Time magazine said, declaring him Man of the Year for 1932,

      Two months ago, in a lively referendum from ocean to ocean, the people of the U.S. chose their own Man of the Year, and clearly the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the Presidency was without equal elsewhere in the world as an individual accomplishment. To millions & millions of forgotten men he was a big-jawed, happy Messiah whose new deal would somehow put money into everybody’s pocket. To himself, victory was the sweet reward of long years of careful planning, unremitting work.

      Man of the Year Roosevelt’s climb to the Presidency represented a physical triumph of the first order. For a decade he had fought a dogged fight to regain control over his paralyzed legs. Today the President-elect can walk in his braces, without crutch, stick, or assisting arm, about 15 steps. Declares his wife: If the paralysis couldn’t kill him, I guess the Presidency won’t.

      Will he make good in the White House? The country is only too ready to hope so. Yet in spite of his campaign utterances and the activities of his brain trust, by last week President-elect Roosevelt had apparently only begun to arrive at his answers for the problems of 1933 … Cabinet … War Debts … Farm Relief … Economy … Tariff … Taxation … Prohibition.… A year from now the U.S. electorate will have a much more real idea of the worth of its 1932 Man of the Year.

      If his presidential political platform was a bit of a mystery, his personal life was quite private, in a way almost unimaginable today. FDR married a distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The marriage, after producing six children (five of whom lived), broke down when Eleanor

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