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I. Becoming a Leader: FDR Before the Presidency
1.Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Models: Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
2.An Uncommon Partnership: Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt
3.Polio and Paralysis: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Disability
4.Governing New York: Laboratory for the New Deal, Platform for FDR
5.America at the Crossroads: The Election of 1932
6.The Long Transition: From Election Day to Inauguration Day
II. Hope, Recovery, Reform: The Great Depression & FDR’s New Deal
1.FDR’s New Deal: The Domestic Program That Remade America
2.The Banking Crisis: Ordeal of a Nation, Test for a New President
3.A New Deal for Farmers: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Rural America
4.Lights Across the Countryside: The Tennessee Valley Authority
5.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Conservationist: An Early Initiative in Sustainability
6.Putting People to Work: Job Creation and Work Relief in the New Deal
7.A Friend of Labor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Worker Rights
8.Work for Artists, Arts for America: Federal Project Number One
9.Social Security: A Safety Net for Americans
10.Frances Perkins: Advocate for Working People, at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Right Hand
11.Harry Hopkins: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Closest Adviser
12.Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Yorker: The New Deal in the Empire State
13.African Americans and the New Deal: A Historic Realignment in American Politics
14.Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial: A Great Singer Makes Civil Rights History
15.Women and the New Deal: Gaining Ground in Politics and Public Life
16.A New Kind of First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House
17.Running for President: Franklin D. Roosevelt as Campaigner in Chief
18.Is It Constitutional?: The New Deal and the Supreme Court
19.The New Deal Democrats: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democratic Party
20.Chief Executive: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Congress, and the Presidency
21.Talking to the People: FDR, Radio, and the Press
III. Four Freedoms: Preparing for War, Envisioning Peace
1.The Battle of the Atlantic: Peril on the Seas
2.The Fall of France: Democracy’s Dark Hour
3.Neighbors and Allies: United States–Canada Relations under Franklin D. Roosevelt
4.The Good Neighbor Policy: Promoting Respect and Unity in the Americas
5.Arming Democracy: Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Lead-Up to War
6.Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech: A Call for Human Rights “Everywhere in the World”
7.The Atlantic Charter: Would-Be Allies Define Their Cause
IV. Statesman & Commander in Chief: FDR in WWII
