Facade of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York
HYDE PARK, N.Y. — The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host its 20th annual Roosevelt Reading Festival on Saturday, June 22, from 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The program will feature recently published works from 14 authors. The event will include a special afternoon lecture by Paul M. Sparrow, author of “Awakening the Spirit of America: The Quarrel Between President Franklin Roosevelt and Charles Lindbergh and the Fight to Save Democracy.”
The festival will be held at the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Residence, 4079 Albany Post Road (US Route 9). This is a free, public event and no registration is required.
Six concurrent sessions throughout the day will feature talks by 14 authors whose work draws from the Roosevelt Library archives or focuses on the Roosevelt era, followed by Q&A and book signings. All of the authors' books will be available for sale in the New Deal Store. The program will begin with coffee and snacks.
This year's Roosevelt 2024 Reading Festival authors include:
* Angela S. Beauchamp, Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen: The First Lady's Film and Television Appearances, 1932-1962
* James B. Conroy, “The Devil Has No Rest: Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Plan that Won the War”
* Steve Drummond, “Watchdog: How the Truman Commission Fighted Corruption and Helped Win World War II”
* Stan Haines, “From Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Presidential Nominating Conventions, 1904-1944”
* Diana B. Enriquez, “Taming the Streets: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and President Franklin Roosevelt's Battle to Regulate American Capitalism”
* David Kaiser, “States of the Union: A Political History of the United States Through Presidential Addresses, 1789-2023”
* Cheryl Kaskowitz, “A Chance to Fit in: How President Franklin Roosevelt's Secret Music Corps Tried to Save America from the Great Depression”
* Molly Guptill Manning, “The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Fight Censorship and Propaganda and Helped Win World War II”
* Michel Paradis, “The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, the Normandy Landings, and the Rise of the American Superpower”
* David Pietrza, Gangsterland: A Journey through the Dark Heart of Jazz Age New York
* David L. Rohl, “The Rise to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Reshaped the World”
* Noriwe Lukes, “Passion for Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune”
* Janeken Smucker, “New Deals for Quilts”
* Paul M. Sparrow, “The Awakening of the American Spirit: Franklin Roosevelt's Quarrel with Charles Lindbergh and the Fight for Democracy”
