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[]

• Graham, Otis L. and Meghan Robinson Wander, eds. Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times. (1985). An encyclopedic reference. online
• Pederson, William D., ed. (2011). A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4443-9517-4.; 35 essays by scholars.
• Winkler, Allan M. (2006). Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America. Longman. ISBN 0-321-41285-0.

Biographical[]

• Black, Conrad (2005) [2003], Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (interpretive detailed biography), ISBN 978-1-58648-282-4.
• Brands, H. W. (2009). Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-307-27794-7.: despite the title, a highly favorable biography by scholar. Plus Author Webcast Interview at the Pritzker Military Library on January 22, 2009
• Burns, James MacGregor (1956). Roosevelt. 1. Easton Press. ISBN 978-0-15-678870-0.
• ——— (1970). Roosevelt: the soldier of freedom. 2. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0-15-678870-0..
• Cook, Blanche Wiesen (1992). Eleanor Roosevelt. 1. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-009460-1.
• Dallek, Robert (2017). Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life. Viking. ISBN 9780698181724.
• Daniels, Roger (2015), Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-03951-5.
• Daniels, Roger (2016). Franklin D. Roosevelt: The War Years, 1939-1945. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252039522.
• Davis, Kenneth S (1972), FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882–1928 (popular biography), ISBN 978-0-399-10998-0.
• Freidel, Frank (1952–73), Franklin D. Roosevelt, 4 volumes, OCLC 459748221: the most detailed scholarly biography; ends in 1934.
  • 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
• ——— (1990), Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny (scholarly biography), one volume, ISBN 978-0-316-29260-3; covers entire life.
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns (1995), No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, ISBN 978-0-684-80448-4; popular joint biography
• Gunther, John (1950), Roosevelt in Retrospect, Harper & Brothers
• Jenkins, Roy (2003), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (short bio from British perspective), ISBN 978-0-8050-6959-4.
• Lash, Joseph P (1971), Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers (history of a marriage), ISBN 978-0-393-07459-8.
• Leuchtenburg, William (2015). The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. Oxford University Press.
• Morgan, Ted (1985), FDR: A biography (popular biography), ISBN 978-0-671-45495-1.
• Rowley, Hazel (2010). Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-15857-6.
• Smith, Jean Edward (2007). FDR. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6121-1.
• Tully, Grace (2005). Franklin Delano Roosevelt, My Boss. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4179-8926-3.
• Ward, Geoffrey C (1985), Before The Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882–1905, ISBN 978-0-06-015451-6
• ——— (1992), A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (popular biography), ISBN 978-0-06-016066-1: covers 1905–32.
• Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken (2014). The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-35306-9.

Scholarly topical studies[]

• Alter, Jonathan (2006), The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (popular history), ISBN 978-0-7432-4600-2.
• Badger, Anthony (2008), FDR: The First Hundred Days, ISBN 978-0-8090-4441-2 200 pp; overview by leading British scholar.
• Beasley, Maurine, ed. (2001), The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, et al, ISBN 0-313-30181-6.
• Bellush, Bernard (1955). Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of New York. LCCN 55006181.
• 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.
• Collins, Robert M. (2002). More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515263-8.
• Dunn, Susan. Roosevelt's Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party (2010), on 1938.
• Ferrell, Robert H. (1998). The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1171-2. LCCN 97045797.
• 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.
• Graham, Otis L; Wander, Meghan Robinson, eds. (1985), Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times (encyclopedia), ISBN 978-0-8161-8667-9.
• Hawley, Ellis (1995). The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly. Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-1609-8.
• 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.
• Katznelson, Ira (2013). Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-8714-0738-2.
• Kennedy, David M (1999), Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (wide-ranging survey of national affairs by leading scholar; Pulitzer Prize), ISBN 978-0-19-503834-7.
• ——— (Summer 2009), "What the New Deal Did", Political Science Quarterly, 124 (2): 251–68, doi:10.1002/j.1538-165x.2009.tb00648.x.
• Leuchtenburg, William E. (1963). Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940. Harpers. ISBN 978-0-06-133025-4.
• ——— (2005), "Showdown on the Court", Smithsonian (fulltext), Ebsco, 36 (2): 106–13, ISSN 0037-7333.

• McJimsey, George (2000). The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1012-9.
• McMahon, Kevin J (2004), Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown, ISBN 978-0-226-50088-1.
• Miscamble, Wilson D. (2007). From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86244-8.
• Parmet, Herbert S; Hecht, Marie B (1968), Never Again: A President Runs for a Third Term, on 1940 election.
• Pederson, William D (2011), A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-4443-3016-8, 768 pages; essays by scholars covering major historiographical themes.

• Price, Charles M. and Joseph Boskin. "The Roosevelt 'Purge': A Reappraisal" Journal of Politics (1966) 28#3 660–670. doi:10.2307/2128161
• Rauchway, Eric (2008), The Great Depression and The New Deal; A Very Short Introduction, ISBN 978-0-19-532634-5, balanced summary
• Ritchie, Donald A (2007), Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932, ISBN 978-0-7006-1687-9.
• Rosen, Elliot A (2005), Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery, ISBN 978-0-8139-2368-0.
• Savage, Sean J. Roosevelt, the Party Leader, 1932-1945 (1991).
• Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr (1957–60), The Age of Roosevelt, 3 volumes, OCLC 466716, the classic narrative history. Strongly supports FDR.
• Shaw, Stephen K; Pederson, William D; Williams, Frank J, eds. (2004), Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court, ISBN 978-0-7656-1033-1.
• Sitkoff, Harvard, ed. (1985), Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated (essays by scholars), ISBN 978-0-394-33548-3.
• Walker, Frank Comerford (1997). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). FDR's Quiet Confidant: The Autobiography of Frank C. Walker. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 0870813978. LCCN 96054006.
• Yoo, John. "Franklin Roosevelt and Presidential Power." Chapman Law Review 21 (2018): 205+. [ on line], a view from the right

Foreign policy and World War II[]

• 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.
• Beschloss, Michael (2002). The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941–1945. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-81027-0.
• Burns, James MacGregor (1970). Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0-15-178871-2.
• Churchill, Winston (1977). The Grand Alliance. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-395-41057-6.
• Cole, Wayne S (Mar 1957), "American Entry into World War II: A Historiographical Appraisal", The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 43 (4): 595–617, doi:10.2307/1902275, JSTOR 1902275.
• Dallek, Robert (1995). Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945. Oxford University. ISBN 0-19-509732-7.
• 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, ISBN 978-0-19-504424-9.
• Herman, Arthur (2012). Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-60463-1.
• 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, ISBN 978-0-691-04787-4.
• Lacey, James. The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II (2019)
• Langer, William; Gleason, S Everett (1952), The Challenge to Isolation, 1937–1940, OCLC 1448535. The Undeclared War, 1940–1941 (1953) 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, 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)
• Reynolds, David (2006), From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s, 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.
• Sherwood, Robert E (1949) [1950], Roosevelt and Hopkins: an Intimate History, hdl:2027/heb.00749, 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.
• Weinberg, Gerhard L (1994), A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, 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, ISBN 978-0-8078-1877-0.

Criticism[]

• Barnes, Harry Elmer (1953), Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Its Aftermath, 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; Lichtman, Allan J (2013), FDR and the Jews, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-05026-6, 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, ISBN 0-8135-0664-6, OCLC 98997.
• 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.
• Powell, Jim (2003), FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, ISBN 0-7615-0165-7.
• 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.
• Smiley, Gene (1993), Rethinking the Great Depression (short essay) by libertarian economist who blames both Hoover and FDR.
• Wyman, David S (1984), 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.
• 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.
• ——— (1950), "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Audience Persuasion in the 1936 Campaign", Communication Monographs, 17: 48–64, doi:10.1080/03637755009374997.
• 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.
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (2005), My Friends, Kessinger Publishing, 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.
• ——— (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, doi:10.1080/03637756609375508.

Historiography[]

• Hendrickson, Jr., Kenneth E. "FDR Biographies," in William D. Pederson, ed. A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt (2011) pp 1–14
• Provizer, Norman W. "Eleanor Roosevelt Biographies," in William D. Pederson, ed. A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt (2011) pp 15–33

See also[]

• Bibliography of World War II
• Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt

External links[]

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