Was FDR America's greatest president?

Serving for 12 years, far longer than any other president, he had such a profound impact on the nation and the world that he is widely recognized as one of the transformational figures of the 20th Century and one of America's best presidents. Franklin D. read more

A biography published by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia concludes, "Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt guided America through its greatest domestic crisis with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis. read more

A 2015 poll administered by the American Political Science Association (APSA) among political scientists specializing in the American presidency had Abraham Lincoln in the top spot, with George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson making the top 10. read more

By any standard one cares to use, FDR was a great man! Although imperfect like all of us, many believe him, and with good reason, to be our second greatest president! Back in the 1930s, the cultured and privileged Franklin Delano Roosevelt was considered by some to be a traitor to his class. read more