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NOTE: The books with *** are new books which were selected to be included in The 2008 Roosevelt Reading Festival at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum on June 21, 2008.
 


A First-Class Temperament: Ward, Geoffrey C. New York, 1989.


Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer: Abt, John J. University of Illinois Press, 1993.  


***A Conspiracy of Silence: The Health and Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Goldsmith, Harry S., M.D., iUniverse, Inc. NY, 2008. 280 pp.


And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South, Maharige, Dale; Williamson, Michael; and Mydans, Carl. Pantheon Books, 1989.  


Anecdotes of a Securities Lawyer: Loss, Louis. Little, Brown, 1995.  


Arena: The History of the Federal Theater: Flannagan, Hallie. Arno Press, 1980. Run Through, Houseman, John. Simon & Schuster, 1974.  


Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal: David Stebenne. 


***Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Journals 1952-2000.  Schlesinger, Andrew. co-editor.


Ballad of an American: Robinson, Earl and Gordon, Eric A. Scarecrow Press, 1997.  


Ben Shan: New Deal Artists in a Cold War Climate: 1947-1954. Frances K. Pohl. 1952  


Critical Lives: Eleanor Roosevelt: Sarah J. Purcell and L. Edward Purcell. Alpha--A Pearson Education Company, 2002
Da Capo Press, part of the Perseus Group, has a long series called FDR and the End of the New Deal. 


Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters form the Forgotten Man: Edited by Robert S. McElvaine. University of South Carolina Press,1983.  


Eleanor and Franklin: Joseph P. Lash. Norton Press, 1971

 
Eleanor: The Years Alone: Joseph P. Lash, Norton Press, 1972, 368 pp.  


***FDR: The First Hundred Days: Badger, Anthony J., Hill and Wang, NY, 2007..200 pp.


FDR and WPA Era: Art Across the Nation: Nassau County Museum, 1 Museum, Roslyn Harbor, New York 11576


FDR: by Graff, Gina&Butterfield Harper&Row, 1962 


FDR: Morgan, Ted. New York, 1085.


FDR: Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Robert N. Rosen, Thurnder's Month Press, 2006


FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny:
Davis, Kenneth S. New York, 1971.


FDR-1842-1945: A Centenary Remembrance. Alsop, Jonathan. New York: Viking Press. 1982. 256 pp.


Franklin and Winston: Meacham, Jon. New York, 2003.


***Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherford and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life. Persico, Joseph E., Random House, NY. 2008.  443 pp.


Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932-40: William E. Leuchtenburg (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 349-63


Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times-An Encyclopedic View. Edited by Otis L. Graham, Jr. & Meghan Robinson Wander. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co. 1985. 483 pp.


Franklin Delano Roosevelt:  Black, Conrad. New York, 2003.


Freedom From Fear: Kennedy, David M. New York, 1999.


Go East, Young Man: The Early Years :
the Autobiography of William O. Douglas: Douglas, William O. Random House, 1974.  


Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer: Hopkins, June. St. Martin's Press, 1999. 


Images of American Radicalism: Buhle, Paul and Sullivan, Edmund B. Christopher Publishing House, (Hanover MA) 1999. L of C NO. 946 90 75


It Seems to Me: Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt:
Roosevelt, Eleanor. Ed. by Leonard C. Schlup & Donald W. Whisenhunt. University Press of Kentucky, May 2001. 

 
King Cotton's Advocate: Oscar G. Johnson and the New Deal: Nelson, Lawrence J. University of Tennessee Press, 1999. 


Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Agee, James and Evans, Walker.   Mariner  Books, 2001


Lincoln Pioneer Village: A New Deal Living History Museum: Grieff, Glory-June. glory@Indy.net


Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds: Rudnick, Lois Palken. University of New Mexico Press, 1984.  


My Roosevelt Years: Littell, Norman M. University of Washington Press, 1987. 


No Ordinary Time:
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. New York. 1994.


Old Fields, New Corn: The Personal Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Lawyer: Griswold, Erwin N. West Publishing Company, 1992. 


Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics and San Francisco's Public Murals: Lee, Anthony W. University of California Press, 1999.  


Put to Work: Relief Program in the Great Depression: Rose, Nancy E. Cornerstone Books-Monthly Review Press. 1994  


Recollections of the New Deal: When the People Mattered: Eliot, Thomas H. Northeastern University Press, 1992.  


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


Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom:  James McGregor Burns, Smithmark Press, 1970, 618 pp.  


Roosevelt's Revolution: The First Years, a Personal Perspective, Tugwell, Rexford Guy. MacMillan, 1977 (likely available, new).


 ***The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm: A Thousand Days in London, 1938-1940. Swift, Will, Harper Collins Books, 2008. 374 pp.


That Man: An Insider Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt:
  Robert H. Jackson, Oxford University Press, 2003) 290 pp.


That Man: Jackson, Robert H. New York, 2003.


The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope: Alter, Jonathan. Simon & Schuster, New York.


***The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America’s First Modern Press Secretary. Levin, Linda L.


The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: McJimsey, George. University of Kansas Press, 2000. 


The Stamp of FDR: Bernice Thomas, author.

  
The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling: Holli, Melvin G. Palgrave Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 2002. 

 
Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals: Foster, Kathleen A.; Contompasis, Margaret; Bloomington Art Museum Indiana University; and Brewer, Nanette Esseck. Indiana University Press, 2001.  


***White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. Schlesinger, RobertWork - Study Live: The Resident Youth Centers of the NYA: Halstead, Gordon. http://newdeal.feri.org/wsi/

This includes extensive bibliography and resources.