Bibliography of Franklin D. Roosevelt

This bibliography of Franklin D. Roosevelt is a selective list of scholarly works about Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second president of the United States (1933–1945).

General

• Beasley, Maurine, ed. (2001), The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, et al, Greenwood Publishing,
  ISBN 0-313-30181-6
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• Graham, Otis L. and Meghan Robinson Wander, eds. Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times. (1985). An encyclopedic reference. online
• Hiltzik, Michael. The New Deal: A Modern History (2011), popular history emphasizing personalities; online
• ISBN 978-0-19-503834-7
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• Pederson, William D., ed. (2011). A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt. John Wiley & Sons.
  ISBN 978-1-4443-9517-4
  .; 35 essays by scholars.
• ISBN 978-0-19-532634-5
  , balanced summary
• OCLC 466716
  , the classic narrative history from 1928 to 1935. Strongly supports FDR.
• Winkler, Allan M. (2006). Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America. Longman.
  ISBN 0-321-41285-0
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• ISBN 978-1-58648-282-4
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• Pritzker Military Library
  on January 22, 2009
• ISBN 978-0-15-678870-0
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• ——— (1970). Roosevelt: the Soldier of Freedom, 1940–1945. Vol. 2. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
  ISBN 978-0-15-678870-0
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• ISBN 0-14-009460-1
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• Dallek, Robert (2017). Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life. Viking.
  ISBN 9780698181724
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• Daniels, Roger (2015), Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939, University of Illinois Press,
  ISBN 978-0-252-03951-5
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• Daniels, Roger (2016). Franklin D. Roosevelt: The War Years, 1939-1945. University of Illinois Press.
  ISBN 978-0252039522
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• ISBN 978-0-399-10998-0
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  • ISBN 978-0-394-51671-4
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  • ISBN 978-0-394-52753-6
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  • ISBN 978-0-679-41541-1
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  • ISBN 978-0-679-41542-8
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• OCLC 459748221
  : the most detailed scholarly biography; ends in 1933.
  • Frank Freidel, Franlkin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship (vol 1 1952) to 1918; online
  • Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal (1954), covers 1919 to 1928 online
  • Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph (1956) covers 1929-32 online
  • Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Launching the New Deal (1973), covers 1932–33
• ——— (1990), Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny (scholarly biography), Little, Brown,
  ISBN 978-0-316-29260-3
  ; covers entire life in one volume.
• ISBN 978-0-684-80448-4
  ; popular joint biography
• ISBN 978-0-8050-6959-4
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• ISBN 978-0-393-07459-8
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• ISBN 978-0-671-45495-1
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• Roosevelt, Mrs. James; Leighton, Isabel; Forbush, Gabrielle (1933). My Boy Franklin (First ed.). R. Long & R.R. Smith.
• ISBN 978-0-374-15857-6
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• ISBN 978-1-4000-6121-1
  ., scholarly biography
• ISBN 978-0-06-015451-6
• ——— (1992), A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (popular biography), Harper & Row,
  ISBN 978-0-06-016066-1
  : covers 1905–28.
• ISBN 978-0-385-35306-9
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• ISBN 978-0-7432-4600-2
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• Badger, Anthony (2008), FDR: The First Hundred Days, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
  ISBN 978-0-8090-4441-2
  200 pp; overview by leading British scholar.
• LCCN 55006181
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• Brinkley, Douglas (2016). Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America. HarperCollins.
  ISBN 978-0-06-208923-6
  .; On his environmental and conservation beliefs & policies.
• Dunn, Susan. Roosevelt's Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party (2010), on 1938.
• LCCN 97045797
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• Goldman, Armond S.; Goldman, Daniel A. (2017). Prisoners of Time: The Misdiagnosis of FDR's 1921 Illness. EHDP Press.
  ISBN 978-1-939-82403-5
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• Jeffries, John W. "A 'Third New Deal'? Liberal Policy and the American State, 1937-1945." Journal of Policy History 8.4 (1996): 387–409.
• Jordan, David M (2011), FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944, Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
  ISBN 978-0-253-35683-3
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• ISBN 978-0-8714-0738-2
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• doi:10.1002/j.1538-165x.2009.tb00648.x
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• ISBN 978-0-06-133025-4
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• ——— (2005), "Showdown on the Court", Smithsonian (fulltext), 36 (2), Ebsco: 106–13,
  ISSN 0037-7333
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• McJimsey, George (2000). The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. University Press of Kansas.
  ISBN 978-0-7006-1012-9
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• McMahon, Kevin J (2004), Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown, University of Chicago Press,
  ISBN 978-0-226-50088-1
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• Parmet, Herbert S; Hecht, Marie B (1968), Never Again: A President Runs for a Third Term, on 1940 election.
• Pietrusza, David (2015), 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny. Study of Roosevelt's 1932 election.
• Pietrusza, David (2022), Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal. Study of Roosevelt's 1936 re-election landslide.
• Price, Charles M. and Joseph Boskin. "The Roosevelt 'Purge': A Reappraisal" Journal of Politics (1966) 28#3 660–670. doi:10.2307/2128161
• ISBN 978-0-7006-1687-9
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• Rosen, Elliot A (2005), Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery, University of Virginia Press,
  ISBN 978-0-8139-2368-0
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• Savage, Sean J. Roosevelt, the Party Leader, 1932-1945 (1991).
• Shaw, Stephen K; Pederson, William D; Williams, Frank J, eds. (2004), Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court, M.E. Sharpe,
  ISBN 978-0-7656-1033-1
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• Sitkoff, Harvard, ed. (1985), Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated (essays by scholars), Knopf,
  ISBN 978-0-394-33548-3
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• Yoo, John. "Franklin Roosevelt and Presidential Power." Chapman Law Review 21 (2018): 205+. [ on line], a view from the right

• Beitzell, Robert. The uneasy alliance; America, Britain, and Russia, 1941-1943 (1972) online
• Berthon, Simon; Potts, Joanna (2007). Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-creation of World War II through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. Da Capo Press.
  ISBN 978-0-306-81650-5
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• ISBN 978-0-684-81027-0
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• Burns, James MacGregor (1970). Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
  ISBN 978-0-15-178871-2
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• ISBN 0-395-41057-6
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• Cole, Wayne S (Mar 1957), "American Entry into World War II: A Historiographical Appraisal", The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 43 (4): 595–617,
  JSTOR 1902275
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• ISBN 0-19-509732-7
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• Feis, Herbert. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin; the war they waged and the peace they sought (1957) online
• Glantz, Mary E (2005), FDR and the Soviet Union: The President's Battles over Foreign Policy, U. Press of Kansas,
  ISBN 978-0-7006-1365-6
  , 253 pp.
• Hamilton, Nigel (2014), The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 514 pp.
• Heinrichs, Waldo (1988), Threshold of War. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II, Oxford University Press,
  ISBN 978-0-19-504424-9
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• Herman, Arthur (2012). Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. Random House.
  ISBN 978-0-679-60463-1
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• Kaiser, David. No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War (2014) excerpt and text search
• Kimball, Warren (1991), The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as World Statesman, Princeton University Press,
  ISBN 978-0-691-04787-4
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• Lacey, James. The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II (2019)
• OCLC 404227
  . highly detailed and influential two-volume semi-official history
• Larrabee, Eric (1987), Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War, Harper & Row,
  ISBN 978-0-06-039050-1
  . Detailed history of how FDR handled the war.
• McNeill, William H. America, Britain, and Russia: Their Co-operation and Conflict, 1941-1946 (1953)
• Mayers, David. FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis: From the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II (2013)
• Miscamble, Wilson D. (2007). From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War. Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-521-86244-8
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• ISBN 978-0-19-928411-5
• Sainsbury, Keith (1994). Churchill and Roosevelt at War: The War They Fought and the Peace They Hoped to Make. New York University Press.
  ISBN 0-8147-7991-3
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• ISBN 9780060138455
  , Pulitzer Prize.
• Viorst, Milton (1965). Hostile allies: FDR and Charles de Gaulle. Macmillan.
• Tierney, Dominic (2007). FDR and the Spanish Civil War, Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America. Duke University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8223-4076-8
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• ISBN 978-0-521-44317-3
  . Overall history of the war; strong on diplomacy of FDR and other main leaders.
• Woods, Randall Bennett (1990), A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941–1946, UNC Press Books,
  ISBN 978-0-8078-1877-0
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• OCLC 457149
  . A revisionist blames FDR for inciting Japan to attack.
• Best, Gary Dean (1991), Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt Versus Recovery, 1933–1938, Praeger,
  ISBN 0-275-93524-8
  ; summarizes newspaper editorials.
• Best, Gary Dean (2002), The Retreat from Liberalism: Collectivists versus Progressives in the New Deal Years, Praeger,
  ISBN 0-275-94656-8
  criticizes intellectuals who supported FDR.
• Breitman, Richard;
  OCLC 812248674
  , 433 pp.
• Conkin, Paul K (1975), New Deal, New York: Crowell,
  ISBN 0-690-00810-4
  , critique from the left.
• Doenecke, Justus D; Stoler, Mark A (2005), Debating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Foreign Policies, 1933–1945, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield,
  ISBN 0-8476-9415-1
  . 248 pp.
• Feingold, Henry L (1970), The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938–1945, Rutgers University Press,
  OCLC 98997
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• Flynn, John T (1948), The Roosevelt Myth, former FDR supporter condemns all aspects of FDR.
• Moley, Raymond (1939), After Seven Years (insider memoir by Brain Truster who became conservative).
• Russett, Bruce M (1997), No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II (2nd ed.), says US should have let USSR and Germany destroy each other.
• Plaud, Joseph J (2005), Historical Perspectives on Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Foreign Policy, and the Holocaust, The FDR American Heritage Center Museum, archived from the original on January 12, 2014.
• ISBN 0-7615-0165-7
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• Robinson, Greg (2001), By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans says FDR's racism was primarily to blame.
• Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (2006), Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933–1939, compares populist and paternalist features.
• Schweikart, Larry; Allen, Michael (2004). A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror. Penguin Group US.
  ISBN 978-1-101-21778-8
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• Smiley, Gene (1993), Rethinking the Great Depression (short essay) by libertarian economist who blames both Hoover and FDR.
• The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945
  , Pantheon Books. Attacks Roosevelt for passive complicity in allowing Holocaust to happen.

FDR's rhetoric

• Braden, Waldo W; Brandenburg, Earnest, eds. (1955), "Roosevelt's Fireside Chats", Communication Monographs, 22 (5): 290–302,
  doi:10.1080/03637755509375155
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• Buhite, Russell D; Levy, David W, eds. (1993), FDR's Fireside Chats.
• Craig, Douglas B (2005), Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940.
• Crowell, Laura (1952), "Building the 'Four Freedoms' Speech", Communication Monographs, 22 (5): 266–83,
  doi:10.1080/03637755509375153
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• ——— (1950), "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Audience Persuasion in the 1936 Campaign", Communication Monographs, 17: 48–64,
  doi:10.1080/03637755009374997
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• Houck, Davis W (2002), FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address, Texas A&M UP.
• ——— (2001), Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression, Texas A&M UP.
• ISBN 1-4179-9610-2
• Ryan, Halford Ross (1979), "Roosevelt's First Inaugural: A Study of Technique", Quarterly Journal of Speech, 65 (2): 137–49,
  doi:10.1080/00335637909383466
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• ——— (1988), Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rhetorical Presidency, Greenwood Press.
• Stelzner, Hermann G (1966), "'War Message,' December 8, 1941: An Approach to Language", Communication Monographs, 33 (4): 419–37,
  S2CID 144612750
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• Cantril, Hadley; Strunk, Mildred, eds. (1951), Public Opinion, 1935–1946, massive compilation of many public opinion polls from the US.
• Loewenheim, Francis L; Langley, Harold D, eds. (1975), Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence.
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1945) [1938], Rosenman, Samuel Irving (ed.), The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, vol. 13 volumes.
• ——— (1946), Zevin, BD (ed.), Nothing to Fear: The Selected Addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932–1945.
• ——— (2005) [1947], Taylor, Myron C (ed.), Wartime Correspondence Between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII (reprint), Kessinger Publishing,
  ISBN 978-1-4191-6654-9
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• Roosevelt, Franklin. Franklin D. Roosevelt and foreign affairs (FDR Library, 1969) 14 vol. online free to borrow; covers Jan 1933 to Aug 1939; 9 volumes are online
  • Nixon, Edgar B, ed. (1969), Franklin D Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs (3 vol), covers 1933–37. 2nd series 1937–39 available on microfiche and in a 14 vol print edition at some academic libraries.
• ISBN 978-1-4179-8926-3
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• New Deal#Sources & further reading
• United States home front during World War II#Further reading
• Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt

External links

• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress
• Works by Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Franklin D. Roosevelt at Faded Page (Canada)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Personal Manuscripts