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The Roosevelts
Descriptive Audio: The Storm (1920-1933)
Season 1
Episode 18
Franklin Roosevelt runs for vice president in 1920 and seems assured of a still brighter future until polio devastates him. He spends seven years struggling without success to walk again, while Eleanor builds her own personal and political life of. FDR returns to politics in 1928 and acts with such vigor during the first years of the Great Depression that the Democrats nominate him for president.
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1:51:33
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
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Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
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Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
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1:56:30
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
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Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
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1:54:57
Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.
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1:51:33
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
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1:55:05
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
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1:56:40
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
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1:56:40
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.
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1:56:30
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
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1:56:20
Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.