FDR meets, courts and marries Eleanor Roosevelt, a distant cousin and niece of Franklin’s hero Theodore Roosevelt. The newly wed couple set up housekeeping in an adjacent brownstone to his mother Sarah.
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Roosevelt’s social programs draw the ire of people in his own class. His handicap is a political liability that needs to be hidden by guile and performance.
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His progressive programs as governor of New York in the darkest years of the Great Depression position him for a run for president against Herbert Hoover.
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Seabiscuit was dung-colored and boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn’t completely straighten, a straggly tail and an ungainly gait, but though he didn't look the part, he was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history.
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The story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease and even death for nearly a decade.
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