Author:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Edition Statement:1st Transaction ed. 2011.
Imprint:New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, 2011.
Description461 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1951.
Note:Includes index.
Note:I. Political apprenticeship. 1. Kidnapped into politics -- 2. In the big puddle -- 3. "I hate war; I have seen war" -- 4. "Not a landslide but an earthquake" -- II. The long wait. -- 5. Fate deals a hand -- 6. "Good neighborman" -- III. Good neighborman to New York.-- 7. Back in the main channel -- 8. "The objectives were the same" -- 9. "I pledge you to a new deal" -- IV. Good neighborman to the nation. -- 10. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" -- 11. "One hundred great days" -- 12. He kept dealing new hands -- 13. Straights and flushes and lots of deuces -- 14. The court ordered the old deck -- 15. Declaration of economic independence -- 16. "I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" -- 17. "Fire burn, and cauldron bubble" -- 18. The first cold war -- 19. "A date that will live in infamy" -- V. One gangland or one neighborhood. -- 20. "Angered forces of common humanity" -- 21. "Hit him and hit him again" -- 22. Through the mists : one neighborhood -- 23. "To go back to my home on the Hudson."
