Download or read book Essential Franklin D. Roosevelt written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major addresses and messages of FDR highlight his administration's response to the Great Depression and to the major events of World War II. Includes addresses that he made as governor of New York, all of his inaugural addresses, many state-of-the-union messages to Congress, political convention speeches, fund-raising speeches to aid victims of infantile paralysis, and his most important fireside chats. Also contains messages that FDR sent to Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito in attempts to prevent the ominous occurrences in Europe and the Pacific from igniting a global war.