On January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. James Roosevelt, Franklin's father, was a prosperous railroad official and landowner(Lawson 25). His predecessors, when they came from the Netherlands, were succes Roosevelt learned from private tutors, not going to school until the age of fourteen. He had already studied German, Latin and French by the time he had started school(Freidel 6). Sailing, bird hunting and stamp collecting were among his hobbies. On …showed first 75 words of 924 total…

…showed last 75 words of 924 total…people more than twelve years and had now taken his final re Bibliography Alsop, Joseph, FDR, A Centenary Rememberance, The Viking Press, New York, 1982. Hacker, Jeffrey H., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Watts, New York, 1983. Freidel, Frank, A Rendezvous With Destiny, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1990. Lawson, Don, FDR's New Deal, Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1974. Woolf, S.J., Thomas Depicts the Socialist Utopia, New York Times Magazine, July 24, 1932, The New York Times Company. Word Count: 958