THE ROOSEVELTS

AN INTIMATE HISTORY

THE FIRE OF LIFE

THURSDAY, APRIL 9 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

With his election to the New York State Senate in 1910, Franklin D. Roosevelt sets out to make a name for himself in Albany, much as Theodore Roosevelt had done twenty-nine years earlier. He joins forces with reform-minded Democrats to fight against the powerful bosses of their own party, and battles for state government and labor reforms – but to the dismay of many, his support is sometimes unreliable. For Eleanor Roosevelt, distance away from her mother-in-law enables her to thrive in this new atmosphere of politics and public service.

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