Cheri's Reviews > A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia

While not born in Georgia, Franklin D. Roosevelt began to visit Warm Springs, Georgia for relief and for the healing waters in Warm Springs after being stricken with polio. Over a period of 21 years, including his years as President, he visited there forty one times. The waters were not the only charm that drew him back again and again, he had a very warm regard for the people there. It also offered some respite from his increasingly public persona.

The photographs are a more intimate look through those years than would likely have made the news back then, but combined with the information it provides an excellent peek into those years. The information and stories about FDR were more than enough to keep me interested, plus some stories of those that touched his life there, and the photographs are priceless.

Publication Date: 1 May 2016

Many thanks to University of Georgia Press, NetGalley, and author Kaye Lanning Minchew for providing me with an advance copy to read.