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The Early Roosevelt
Miller, Perry | March 5, 1949 issue

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The article presents the book "F.D.R. His Personal Letters. 1905-1928," edited by Elliott Roosevelt. The reader of the letters would certainly conclude, were they the only evidence available, that the young man of 1905 or 1915 had no interior whatsoever. The U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt could be exhaustively summed up as consisting simply of wealth, social position. A nice boy, without doubt, but then there are thousands of nice boys. The letters are not useful for the outward record of Roosevelt's career between 1905 and 1928 and at first sight seem largely made up of chitchat. The whole story is an object lesson of how history, out of what one might suppose highly unpromising material, can forge a great charismatic being.

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F.D.R. His Personal Letters 1905-1928 (Book); ROOSEVELT, Elliott; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; LETTERS; SOCIAL power; UNITED States
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