The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt: FDR's Greatest Speeches, Fireside Chats, Messages, and Proclamations

xviii, 334 pp. "...the major addresses and messages of the thirty-second president highlight his administration's response to the Great Depression--the landmark initiatives of the New Deal--and to the major events of World War II. In addition to addresses he made as the governor of New York, there are all of Roosevelt's presidential inaugural addresses, many state-of-the-union messages to Congress, political-convention speeches, and fund-raising speeches to aid victims of infantile paralysis, as well as his most important fireside chats, during which he spoke informally to radio listeners throughout the country. Also included are messages he sent to Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito in attempts to prevent the ominous occurrences in Europe and the Pacific from igniting a global war."