The Roosevelt I Knew

A vivid and intimate portrait of the New Deal president by the first woman ever appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.

When Frances Perkins first met Franklin D. Roosevelt at a dance in 1910, she was a young social worker and he was an attractive young man making a modest debut in state politics. Over the next thirty-five years, she watched his career unfold, becoming both a close family friend and a trusted political associate whose tenure as secretary of labor spanned his entire administration. FDR and his presidential policies continue to be widely discussed in the classroom and in the media, and The Roosevelt I Knew offers a unique window onto the man whose courage and pioneering reforms still resonate in the lives of Americans today.

Author: Frances Perkins
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 06/28/2011
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.69h x 5.07w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780143106418
ISBN10: 0143106414
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads of State
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Political

About the Author
Adam Cohen is assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times, where he has been a member of the editorial board since 2002. He was previously a senior writer at Time and is the author of The Perfect Store: Inside eBay and a coauthor of American Pharaoh, a biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley. Before entering journalism, Cohen was an education-reform lawyer, and he has a law degree from Harvard.