A Christian and a Democrat a religious biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, "I am a Christian and a Democrat." This is the story of how the first informed the second--how his upbringing in the Episcopal Church and matriculation at the Groton School und...
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,
2019.
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| Series: | Library of religious biography.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "The strongest and most mysterious force"
- Part I. Formation. Son, vestryman, and church politician
- Endicott Peabody, spiritual father
- Groton and Harvard: race, religion, and leadership
- Part II. Faith. Hope: polio and the Great Depression
- Charity: the cooperative commonwealth
- Faith: "yes, a very simple Christian"
- Prophet, priest, and president: FDR in World War II
- Part III. Interpretation. "Who is Kierkegaard?"
- Last rites
- Afterword: Politics and religion in Lincoln, Hoover, and Roosevelt.
