Head of State (30-Jan-1882 — 12-Apr-1945)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Jonathan Alter. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. Simon and Schuster. 2007. 432pp.

Simon Berthon. Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt and De Gaulle. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf. 2001.

Michael Beschloss. The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2002. 377pp.

Jim Bishop. FDR's Last Year: April 1944-April 1945. New York: Morrow. 1974.

Conrad Black. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. New York City: Public Affairs. 2003. 1280pp.

James MacGregor Burns. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox. New York, New York: Harvest Books. 1956.

James MacGregor Burns; Susan Dunn. The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. 2001. 678pp.

James MacGregory Burns. Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1970.

Kenneth S. Davis. FDR: The New York Years, 1928-1933. New York: Random House. 1985. 512pp.

Kenneth S. Davis. FDR: The War President, 1940-1943. New York, NY: Random House. 2000. 848pp.

Thomas Fleming. The War Within World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Struggle for Supremacy. The Perseus Press. 2001. 639pp.

Doris Kearns Goodwin. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1994.

John Gunther. Roosevelt in Retrospect. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1946.

John Lamberton Harper. American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson. West Nyack, NY: Cambridge University Press. 1994. 378pp.

Alden Hatch. Franklin D. Roosevelt: An Informal Biography. New York: Henry Holt. 1947. 413pp.

Clark Kinnaird (editor). The Real F. D. R.: An Intimate Close-Up in Pictures & Anecdotes, with a Factual Record of His Life & Works. Citadel. 1945.

Jonas Klein. Beloved Island: Franklin and Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello. Forest Dale, VT: Paul S. Eriksson Publisher. 2000.

Joseph P. Lash. Eleanor and Franklin. New York: W. W. Norton. 1971.

George McJimsey. The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 2000. 355pp.

Nathan Miller. The Roosevelt Chronicles: The Story of a Great American Family. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.. 1979. 377pp.

Ted Morgan. FDR: A Biography. New York: Simon And Schuster. 1985.

Frances Perkins. The Roosevelt I Knew. New York: The Viking Press. 1946. 408pp.

Joseph E. Persico. Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage. New York, NY: Random House. 2001.

Elliott Roosevelt. As He Saw It. New York: Duel, Sloan, and Pearce. 1946.

James Roosevelt; Sidney Shalett. Affectionately, F. D. R.: A Son's Story of a Lonely Man. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. 1959. 394pp.

Robert Shogan. Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency. Scribner. 1995.

Jean Edward Smith. FDR. New York: Random House. 2007. 858pp.

David Stafford. Roosevelt & Churchill: Men of Secrets. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press. 2000. 359pp.

Rexford Guy Tugwell. The Art of Politics as Practiced by Three Great Americans: Franklin Delano Rosevelt, Luis Munoz Marin, and Fiorello Guardia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1958. 295pp.

Resa Willis. FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends. Routledge. 2004. 200pp. Lucy Mercer Rutherford, his mistress for over 30 years.

PARALLELS

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.953)

7. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.654)

8. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.607)

9. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1261)

10. Webster's American Biographies (p.891)

11. Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography (p.642)

12. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.652)

13. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.887)

14. A Biographical Dictionary of World War II (pp.165-67)

15. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.625)

16. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.429)

17. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.581)

18. Who's Who in Modern History, 1860-1980 (p.277)

19. The Biographical Dictionary of World War II (pp.467-72)

20. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.454)

21. Encyclopedia of Heads of State and Governments 1900 through 1945 (p.463)

22. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.183)

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