(Paperback)

Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. How he led the country through tremendously difficult problems, much like the ones facing America today, makes for a timely and engrossing biography. Illustrations.

(Paperback)

Examines the life and times of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who developed the system of raised dots by which blind people read and write.