The only president elected four times — he led the United States through its two greatest crises of the twentieth century, the Great Depression and the Second World War. His life, in chapters.
His privileged boyhood, education, marriage, and the polio that nearly ended his career.
Winning the White House in the depths of the Depression and remaking the federal government.
As war loomed in Europe and Asia, FDR steered a divided, isolationist nation toward readiness.
From Pearl Harbor through the great wartime conferences to his death on the eve of victory.
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