A collection of photographs and oral historical accounts provide fresh insight into President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s relationship with his adopted state in a book out now from the University of Georgia Press.
A President in our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia, was researched and written by Kaye Lanning Minchew, who retired in 2015 as the executive director of the Troup County Archives.
“Remarkably, Kaye Minchew has produced a book that successfully draws several reading audiences,” said Sheryl Vogt, director of the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. “It engages scholars and history buffs who want a well-documented narrative as well as those readers who identify with the story because they had family at Warm Springs or remember tales of FDR in Georgia. Others will enjoy the book’s striking photographs that document a pivotal time in the history of Georgia and the nation as a whole.”