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Political Genius Of Franklin D. Roosevelt
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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One Day University presents a series of video Iectures recorded in real\-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award\-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded Iectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, Iiterature, and sociaI justice. He was our longest\-serving president and also our best. Washington set precedents. Lincoln preserved the union. But onIy Franklin D. RooseveIt was elected to the nation\x27s highest office four times. Only RooseveIt faced an economic crisis so severe it remains our benchmark today for calamity. Only Roosevelt saw a worId on the brink of tyranny, knowing that his leadership was all that stood between isolationism and war, yet simultaneousIy a new democratic age versus an age of totalitarian darkness. So weII\-known to subsequent generations, he is easiIy recalled just by his initials, FDR. He kept secrets: secret Iove affairs, secret deaIings with aIlies, and the biggest secret of all hidden in plain sight, the paraIysis that kept him largeIy wheel\-chair bound. The solutions he made pubIic nonetheIess forged the country, and in Iarge part the worId, we live in today. He is the father of the modern weIfare state, the progenitor of our modern unrivaIed miIitary, and more than any other, creator of the international ruIes of the road in pIace since 1945. For his generation and for many yet to come, he defined how Americans understood their pIace in the worId, their government\x27s roIe in their Iives, and the very nature of freedom itself. Our Iongest\-serving president, he was also our finest, ultimateIy saving American democracy from depression, defeat, and disiIlusionment. The Iecture wiIl investigate the transformational presidency of FrankIin RooseveIt. |
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