Easton Press leather edition of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s "The Age of Roosevelt: The Coming of the New Deal, COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the LIBRARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY series, published in 1987. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has decorative acid-free paper end leaves, Symth-sewn binding, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. COLLECTOR'S NOTES is included. Schlesinger, who was awarded two PULITZER PRIZES, was Professor of History at HARVARD and served as a Special Advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who lived from 1882-1945, was the 32nd President of the U.S., serving from 1933-1945, the only man ever elected four times to the Presidency. In his acceptance speech, FDR, in his confidence-inspiring voice, brought the promise of a "new deal" for the "forgotten man." Within the first 100 days of FDR's historic presidency, that "new deal" became the term for the most sweeping and radical legislative and executive changes ever enacted by a single Presidential administration. FDR was 6'2" tall and weighed about 190 lbs. Woodrow Wilson once described him as "the handsomest young giant I have ever seen."  Stricken with polio, Roosevelt lost the use of his legs, but he built up his arms and thick chest to prodigious strength.  His long-stemmed cigarette holder, tilting upward from his toothy grin, became a Roosevelt trademark.  Another trademark, the flowing black navy cape which disguised the crippled President.  FDR's mellow, resonant voice, often described as "the best radio voice in the world," became a key political asset.  Boundless energy, combined with pragmatic and adventurous nature, enabled him to end the major depression of the 1930s and to help defeat the Axis powers in World War II. Born into a very wealthy Hyde Park, N.Y. family, he was educated at HARVARD and COLUMBIA University law school.  Roosevelt was a New York State Senator when WOODROW WILSON appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy.  Defeated as a Vice Presidential candidate in 1921, he was later elected to two terms as Governor of New York.  Roosevelt married his cousin, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, and they became parents to six children and thirteen grandchildren.  When Eleanor read letters and learned her husband was carrying on a "torrid sexual affair" with his secretary, LUCY MERCER, Eleanor agreed to remain married to FDR but she "closed the bedroom" door forever.  The family lived with his mother, SARAH ROOSEVELT, for most of her life and until moving to Albany and later Washington, D.C.  Within the first 100 days of FDR's historic presidency, that "new deal" became the term for the most sweeping and radical legislative and executive changes ever enacted by a single Presidential administration.  The New Deal horrified wealthy conservatives.  Some of the programs included the TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, [The Tennessee River spilled over seven southern states: Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia, the WPA, the CCC, the RURAL ELECTRICAL programs, public schools, libraries, roads, hospitals, bridges, back-to-the-land movements, the DYESS COLONY in Arkansas, housing projects in West Virginia, the establishment of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the most popular new program: SOCIAL SECURITY for older citizens.  In 1940, Roosevelt received the most important letter that WINSTON CHURCHILL had ever written, pleading for moral and financial assistance to help Britain and her allies defeat the Axis powers.  America's response, engineered by the president's appeals to public opinion, was the Lend-Lease program. Just a year later, on, December 7, that "date that will live in infamy," came the attack on PEARL HARBOR, forcing the U.S. to take a major role in WW 2. Roosevelt was forceful as a wartime leader, but by the time of the 1945 YALTA conference, when the President met STALIN and CHURCHILL, he was physically an old man.  However, F.D.R. helped bring about the COLD WAR divisions that would dominate the international scene after his death. The overwhelming, long lasting effect of the New Deal was to change forever the nature of both the Presidency and the national government. 677 pages, including Notes and an Index.  I offer Combined shipping.