FDR[A] superb study of the way FDR successfully created a presidency that could renew America Times Literary Supplement One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low income and African American voters that underwrote the Democratic Partys national ascendancy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his four terms, he promoted the New Deal the greatest reform programme in US history to meet