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No American president, not even Washington or Jefferson, has been more rooted in a particular place than Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) or drawn more of his substance as a leader from the land on which he was born and grew up.
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John G. Waite Associates, Architects, The President as Architect: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Top Cottage (Albany, New York: Mount Ida Press, 2001), 29–30.
“Address at the Dedication of the New Post Office in Rhinebeck, New York. May 1, 1939” in The Presidential Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vol. 8, 302–03. For FDR’s involvement in the design of Hudson Valley post offices, see Bernice L. Thomas, The Stamp of FDR: New Deal Post Offices in the Mid-Hudson Valley (Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 2002).
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Sears, J.F. (2005). Grassroots Democracy: FDR and the Land. In: Henderson, H.L., Woolner, D.B. (eds) FDR and The Environment. The World of the Roosevelts. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100671_2
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