f.d.r.: His Personal Letters
Potpourri
1905-1928. Edited by .Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5.00.
The second volume of F.D.R.’s personal letters is of infinitely greater interest than the first, and his son’s editorial comment and annotations cement the correspondence into something approaching an informal personal history. Beginning with the Roosevelts’ honeymoon trip to Europe, the book shows us F.D.R. as a sedate young father, covers his entry into state and national politics and his tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and gives us an intimate picture of his seven-year battle with infantile paralysis.
The correspondence, which is warmly colored by family feeling and F.D.R.’s proverbial exuberance, clarifies several aspects of his later career and contains a variety of minor revelations.