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The Roosevelts
Descriptive Audio: Get Action (1858-1901)
Season 1
Episode 15
A frail, asthmatic young Theodore Roosevelt transforms himself into a champion of the strenuous life, loses one great love and finds another, leads men into battle and then rises like a rocket to become the youngest president in American history at 42. Meanwhile, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, brought up as the pampered only child of adoring parents, follows his older cousin’s career with fascination.
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Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.