This is the cover of A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt by John F. Woolverton with James D. Bratt. The book is reviewed by Graham Yearley. (CNS)
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Most Americans would not think of Franklin Roosevelt as one of our more religious presidents. The authors of A Christian and a Democrat would agree.
But they would argue that he was inspired by Christian beliefs that were ingrained in him in his childhood home and, perhaps, more importantly, at Groton, the boarding school he attended and that was led by the Rev. Endicott Peabody, an Episcopal priest and social progressive. Rev. Peabody was to remain a spiritual mentor to Roosevelt long after Roosevelt graduated from Groton.
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