Books with title Leading Lives: Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, beginning with his childhood in Hyde Park, New York. Information about Roosevelt's education at Harvard University and Columbia University Law School, as well as his early career as a lawyer is discussed. In addition, his family, personal life, and experience with polio is highlighted. Easy-to-read text details his political career as a New York state senator, assistant secretary of the navy under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I, as a candidate for vice president, and as governor of New York, during which he started the Temporary Relief Administration. Finally, students will explore key events from Democratic president Roosevelt's administration, including the Great Depression, the Hundred Days, the New Deal, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Tennessee Valley, Authority, the Works Progress Administration, the Social Security Act, the Wagner Act, World War II, the Lend-Lease Act, Pearl Harbor, the Yalta Conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, and his death during his unprecedented fourth term as president. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Witness history in the making as you turn the pages of time and discover the fascinating lives of famous explorers, leaders of twentieth-century politics and government, and great Americans. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” With these resounding words and innovative, often controversial, programs Franklin D. Roosevelt stirred a nation to confront and triumph over the Great Depression of the 1930s, the gravest domestic crisis since the Civil War. Roosevelt then led the U.S. to victory over twin menaces from abroad—Nazi Germany and Japan—in World War II. It was a dazzling display of sustained, imaginative leadership that changed the presidency, and the country, forever. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The People’s President depicts the life and times of one of America’s best-loved presidents. Roosevelt paid little heed to his personal adversity—the polio that crippled his legs. Listen to his radio addresses—the famed “fireside chats”—and see how he showed the American people just how much a president can do.

This title will introduce little readers to the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Readers will gather basic, biographical information about Roosevelt through easy-to-read, simple text. They’ll also love the historical photographs, the More Facts section, and bolded glossary terms. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.