Including archival discoveries at the Roosevelt Presidential Library, this documentary collection focuses on the debates and controversies surrounding the implementation and practice of New Deal policies. It highlights the meanings, flaws and outcomes of Roosevelt's attempts to refashion American society.

Unedited speeches and messages, compiled and collated by Douglas Lurton.

Charles Callan Tansill, one of the foremost American diplomatic historians of the twentieth century, convincingly argues that Franklin Roosevelt provoked Japan attacking Pearl Harbor to involve Japan's Axis allies in war also, and so America would thus enter the war through the "back door."