Photographs and text trace the life of Franklin Delano Rooseveltfrom his birth in 1882 through his youth, early political career, and presidency, to his death in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945.

"When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the United States was on the brink of economic collapse and environmental disaster. Thirty-four days later, the first of over three million impoverished young men were building parks and reclaiming the nation's forests and farmlands. The Civilian Conservation Corps--FDR's favorite program and "miracle of inter-agency cooperation"--resulted in the building and/or improvement of hundreds of state...