Submitted by the Bedford Free Public Library
Professor Daniel Breen returns to present the the Bedford Library’s 2016 lecture series that will focus on the Roosevelt family and incorporate Ken Burns’s documentary, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
The series will chronicle Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt through 1945.
The lectures begin at 2 pm and run from Sunday, February 7 through Sunday, April 3 with no program on Sunday, February 14.
Thanks to the sponsorship of the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library, this program is free and open to the public.
Please contact the Library at 781-275-9440 or click www.bedfordlibrary.net for more information.
Programs by Week
Good Action on Sunday, February 7
The extraordinary life of Theodore Roosevelt begins with extraordinary obstacles and heartbreak.
In the Arena on Sunday, February 21
As President, Theodore Roosevelt pursues the most ambitious domestic program since the Civil War while spurring the most ambitious engineering project of modern times. Both endeavors continue to influence American affairs to this day.
Fire of Life on Sunday, March 6
While his fifth cousin Franklin gets a start in New York politics, ex-President Roosevelt insists on coming out of retirement to run again in the crucial election of 1912. Failing in that bid, he joined an expedition of discovery through the Brazilian rain forest. Both adventures nearly killed him.
The Storm on Sunday, March 13
Just as he achieves a position of stature in the national Democratic Party, Franklin encounters an obstacle greater than any Theodore had ever had to confront.
The Rising Road on Sunday, March 20
With the invaluable help of Eleanor Roosevelt, the second president to bear that surname struggles to lend Americans a sense of security during the Great Depression -even as the world across the Atlantic grows ever more insecure.
A Strong and Active Faith on Sunday, April 3
In the terrible world crisis of 1939-1945, the Roosevelts provide perhaps the greatest of their services to the United States.
About Professor Breen
Dr. Daniel Breen is a professor of Legal Studies at Brandeis University who led the World War I series the Library presented in 2006. In the past Dan has lectured at the Library about World War II, the Great Depression, the American Revolution, Prohibition, Supreme Court cases and the Civil War. Dr. Breen has both a JD from the University of Georgia and a PhD in History from Boston College.
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