For all the books written about FDR, there's room on the shelf for a great one-volume life that does full justice to who he was, what he overcame and what he achieved. This one isn't it, though it's ...

(“FDR” by Jean Edward Smith, Random House, 858 pages, $35). In January 1943, after meeting with Franklin Roosevelt at Casablanca on the African coast to plot future military operations during the ...

FDR is more relevant now than ever, with the economic and international challenges America faces and a liberal Democrat in the White House, so any new biography of the most consequential 20th century ...

Reading “The Woman Behind the New Deal” by Kirstin Downey the biography of FDR’s Labor Secretary Frances Perkins brings to mind the old saying about how Ginger Rogers had to do everything Fred Astaire ...