"A stimulating and original survey of the political impact of FDR's image on his successors in the White House."-Foreign Affairs
William E. Leuchtenburg is William Rand Kenan Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Among his many books is Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932¿1940, for which he was awarded the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. Leuchtenburg selected the majority of the quotations for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., at the request of its architect, Lawrence Halprin.