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Pub. Date
[2010], c1945
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. President Roosevelt is visited aboard a ship by Ibn-Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia; and King Faruk I of Egypt. 2. Units of the 8th Army, 6th Army (37th Infantry Division), and the 1st Cavalry Division; troops participate in the liberation of Manila; jungle and urban combat, massive fires in the city, captured collaborators, and pro-Allied Philippine...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1944
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. President Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Henry Wallace ride from Union Station to the White House; F.D.R. visits the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 2. Mail for U.S. troops is sorted at a New York City post office and at the front. 3. U.S. troops advance on Leyte; U.S. and Japanese ships battle in the Philippine Sea; Admiral Nimitz speaks after the naval victory. 4. Trucks carry military...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1942
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. President Roosevelt views an air show. 2. Polish citizens parade in New York City. 3. U.S. troops patrol New Caledonia in jeeps. 4. A flying hero is received by his home town. 5. Anti-aircraft batteries conduct firing practice in western U.S. 6. Frank Knox and President Vargas see Brazilian air cadets graduate in Rio de Janeiro. 7. Planes, guns, and tanks are loaded on ships.
Pub. Date
[2010], c1943
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. President Roosevelt reviews U.S. troops in Iran. 2. Tanks, guns, and other war materials are unloaded at the port of Naples. 3. The Queen Mary docks in Sydney, bringing U.S. troops. 4. College girls in the U.S. make dolls. 5. British sailors test U.S. torpedo boats off the Atlantic coast. 6. Marines inch forward on Tarawa; wounded are carried to the coast and loaded on landing craft;...
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English
Description
Behind the smokescreen of the massive Anglo-American/Soviet pincer movement that would inevitably crush the German war effort, Churchill and Stalin were locked in a grim struggle of wills to set the terms that would decide the immediate future of postwar Europe-a contest in which victory was tipped to the U.S.S.R. through the secret intervention of President Roosevelt. This program reveals the details, supported by readings from the diaries of Sir...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1945
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The Franklin D. Roosevelt carrier in the Hudson River. 2. German POWs in a U.S. Army school. 3. Workmen repair St. Patrick's Cathedral. 4. Soldiers patrol Rio de Janeiro as President Vargas resigns. 5. Clement Attlee meets with President Truman. 6. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson presents a farm to a war hero. 7. Premier Tojo and other war criminals at Omori prison camp; Army troops...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1945
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Eleanor Roosevelt, General Marshall, Admiral King, and Bernard Baruch witness the launching of the Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 2. Admiral Doenitz and Artur von Seyss-Inquart are captured in Germany. 3. B-29s of the 8th Air Force land in the U.S. 4. President Truman presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to an infantryman. 5. Two traitors are tried and shot in...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war-proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. "A first-class, lens-changing work." -James N. Mattis, former United States Secretary of Defense Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. And unofficially he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin -- the man who had starved four million Ukrainians to death in the early 1930s, another million in the purges of the late 1930s, and a further million in the labor camps of the Gulag -- was worth saving. Hopkins sensed...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
In this edition of Moyers & Company, historian Harvey J. Kaye talks with Bill about FDR's January 1941 State of the Union address, delivered less than a year before Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II. In his "Four Freedoms speech" Roosavelt envisioned a progressive society in which freedom of speech and religion, along with freedom from want and fear were shared across the world. But what is the state of these freedoms today? Kaye...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau, an eighteenth Renaissance manse with...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, "the arsenal of democracy" that won World War II. As Nazi Germany began to conquer Europe, America's military was unprepared, too small, and poorly supplied. The Nazis were supported by robust...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Goodwin offers an ... exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In [this book], Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely--Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)--to...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
“By far the most enigmatic leading figure” of World War II. That's how the British military historian John Keegan described Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently left his contemporaries guessing, never more so than at the end of his life. Here, in a hugely insightful account, a prizewinning author and journalist untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he...
Pub. Date
[2012], c1990
Language
English
Description
Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt Items in this compilation include, * FDR's speech made at the Democratic National Convention, in Chicago on 7/2/32 * His first inaugural address, given on 3/4/33 * A fireside chat on the bank crisis, aired on 3/12/33 * A fireside chat on the progress...
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English
Description
This program presents six speeches: Nelson Mandela's 1990 "Release from Prison," Barack Obama's eulogy of Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton's "Women's Rights are Human Rights," Rand Paul's "Let Us All Stand Together," Sarah Palin's 2014 CPAC keynote address, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Second Bill of Rights.
Pub. Date
[2012], c1984
Language
English
Description
It was as if history had staged a morality play. Two gladiators of light and darkness, Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler, came to power within weeks of each other, faced off in a contest of global warfare, and died in the same month. In doing so, they embodied the very essences of democracy and dictatorship. Through the spellbinding appeal of decades-old film, Bill Moyers traces the childhoods and early careers of both leaders, illustrates the paths...
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English
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Douglas Brinkley's Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision. Now Brinkley turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader--Theodore's distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt--chronicling his essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the premier protector of America's public lands. FDR built state park systems and scenic roadways...
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