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Historian Derek Leebaert draws on the private accounts of the four cabinet members who served through the whole Roosevelt presidency (Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace) to argue that the man behind the genial public image was more complicated, and at times harder, than the familiar portrait allows.
Franklin D. Roosevelt with Louis Howe, Harold Ickes, Robert Fechner, Henry Wallace and Rexford Tugwell in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, August 12, 1933. (National Archives, via Wikimedia Commons)