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Publisher / Publication Date: History Book Club 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROOSEVLET FAMILY LASKrull, 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 KRUHamilton, Nigel
Summary: To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war-proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 HAMSummary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation--the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROOSEVELT FAMILY WARSummary: It is the story of the most influential figures of the 20th century, those who caused and those who cured our most troubled times. A parallel biography of the most significant figures of the twentieth century from the last shot fired in the First World War to the victory of Mao Zedong. A story of the power to lead and mislead, to inspire and to cause mass destruction. This is a series, at its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TITSummary: In the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as US Secretary of Labor, the first woman to sit on a presidential cabinet. Against overwhelming odds, she became a driving force behind the New Deal social safety net, including Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the 8-hour day, minimum wage, and unemployment compensation. Featuring compelling interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUMMeltzer, Brad
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Nazi Conspiracy tells the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of the second World War. In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted one thing: a face-to-face meeting with his allies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MELCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MELCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War MeltzerContents: Inaugural address (1933) / President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Inaugural address (1949) / President Harry S. Truman -- "Checkers" speech (1952) / Senator Richard M. Nixon -- Presidential campaign address (1952) / Governor Adlai Stevenson -- Presidential campaign address (1964) / Senator Barry Goldwater -- Address to the nation (1968) / President Lyndon B. Johnson -- Presidential campaign address...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino/Word Beat 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GREMeacham, Jon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 MEABerthon, Simon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BERHamilton, Nigel.
Summary: A close-up, in-the-room look at how FDR took masterful command and control of the Second World War, from wresting key decisions away from Churchill and his own generals, to launching the first successful trial landing in North Africa, and beginning to turn the tide away from the Axis.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN HAMJackson, Robert H.
Summary: "Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still-revered Supreme Court Justice, and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir." "Written with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. JACContents: First recorded promotional message on the Edison Phonograph (1906) / Len Spencer -- The German peril (1917) / Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany James Gerard Watson (i.e. James Watson Gerard) -- Address from France (1918) / General J.J. "Black Jack" Pershing -- On Lindbergh's return to the U.S. (1927) / President Calvin Coolidge and Charles Lindbergh -- Abdication address (1936) / King Edward...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GREBadger, Anthony J.
Summary: Anthony J. Badger details the first one hundred days of the United States' 32nd president, focusing on how President Roosevelt and the Democratic Congress created and enacted the New Deal and reformed the depressed country.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.917 BADFrith, 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 ROOContents: Declaration of war against Japan (1941) / President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Address to Congress (1951) / General Douglas MacArthur -- Announcement of the launching of Sputnik (1957) / Radio Moscow -- Confrontation over presence of Russian missiles in Cuba (1962) / U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson -- On signing of the Civil Rights Bill (1964) / President Lyndon B. Johnson...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino/Word Beat 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GREKlimo, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC KLIMeltzer, Brad
Summary: From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 MELMurray, Bill
Summary: With Great Britain facing war with Germany, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invites the King and Queen of England to his home in upstate New York, while engaging in an affair with a distant cousin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HYDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HYDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HYD RATED RWood, 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 WOOSummary: Narrated by veteran CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl, this video examines the long and complex relationship between the presidency and public opinion. Scholars explore decisive moments in the history of the presidency from George Washington to FDR.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 320.73 MANBaier, Bret
Summary: November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviets had already lost millions of lives. That same month in Tehran, with the fate of the world in question, the 'Big Three,'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019