His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

Leuchtenburg, who cited no specific cause of death. A professor emeritus at the University ... Leuchtenburg’s notable books ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born on January 30, 1882, an only child doted upon by his loving parents and treated with utmost respect by tutors, servants and staff on the family estate in Hyde ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in 1882 ... The bedroom that Roosevelt last stayed in before his death is preserved ...

Leuchtenburg, who cited no specific cause of death. A professor emeritus at ... Leuchtenburg’s notable books include “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal” and “The Perils of Prosperity ...

Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the ... and at the time of his death was working on a new edition that ...