I've been watching the PBS series "The Rooselvelts, An Intimate History" and I am amazed at how little I knew about these people. Eleanor became quite the "women's libber" long before FDR became president. After Franklin contracted polio he started a clinic called Warm Springs where many, many polio sufferers came for therapy and swims in the hot springs. Franklin not only founded the clinic but also led many of the therapy classes himself and was much loved by the patients there.
This 'true history' competes very well with "Downton Abbey".Infidelities, traumatic and dangerous episodes, wars, life threatening situations, romance, the great depression, this series has it all.
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