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Bush, George 1924-2018 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd) 1890-1946 Presidents United States Biography Juvenile literature Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Friends and associates Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Juvenile literature Smith, Alfred Emanuel 1873-1944 United StatesTobin, James
Summary: "A biography of FDR, focusing on his battle with polio and how his disease set him on the course to become president, for fans of Steve Sheinkin's political biographies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: Focuses on Franklin D. Roosevelt's childhood years and summarizes his achievements as president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE 921 KRUSullivan, Anne Marie.
Summary: A biography of the thirty-second president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and young adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROO SULGunderson, Megan
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Franklin D. Roosevelt including his early political career and key events from Roosevelt's administration including the Great Depression, the New Deal, Pearl Harbor, and World War II. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOFrith, Margaret.
Summary: An illustrated biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that provides information on his childhood in Hyde Park, marriage to Eleanor, political career, years as president, and influence on American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2010
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROOWood, Douglas
Summary: At the height of World War II, only a few days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill began an extraordinary visit, during which they made plans that would lead to the success of the Allied powers as well as to a continuing peace after the war ended.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5322 WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J940.53 WOOKlimo, Kate.
Contents: Big boy -- The shaggy scotsman -- The first dog -- Fala's first christmas -- The dog who owns a president -- The man who smells like a cat -- The little White House -- Infamy! -- Hollywood comes to Fala -- The unfinished portrait.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: In Franklin and Lucy, acclaimed author and historian Joseph E. Persico explores FDR's romance with Lucy Rutherfurd (which was far deeper and lasted much longer than was previously acknowledged). Persico also shows how FDR's infidelity as a husband contributed to Eleanor's eventual transformation from a repressed Victorian to perhaps the greatest American woman of her century; how the shaping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 PERSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PREFullilove, Michael
Summary: Documents the lesser-known role of the President and five influential diplomats in overturning American isolationist beliefs and pulling the country into World War II, citing the reports that led to America's support of Great Britain and Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D FULGolway, Terry
Summary: "The inspiring story of an unlikely political partnership--between a to-the-manor-born Protestant and a Lower East Side Catholic--that transformed the Democratic Party and led to the New Deal In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Democratic Party was bitterly split between its urban machines--representing Catholics and Jews, ironworkers and seamstresses, from the tenements of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2736 GOLDobbs, Michael
Summary: "The powerfully told story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler. Official tie-in to the U.S. Holocaust Museum multi-year exhibit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019