FDR

Explore Roosevelt's family background and education and follow his early political career and his courtship of his distant cousin Eleanor Roosevelt and their troubled marriage. The story continues with Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 39 and his struggle to rehabilitate his body and his political career.

A look at the first two terms of Roosevelt's presidency, his struggle with the Depression, how he hid his physical disability from the American people, and how his relationship with his wife affected his personal and professional lives. Also explored -- FDR's management of WWII, including his growing personal ties to Winston Churchill and his relationship with Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union.