Recently finished Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek. I really didn't care for FDR as a person, but I do admire his will and ability to overcome his disability. I also admire many of his legislative accomplishments during the depression, and his ultimate ability to lead the U.S. into the war and mobilize.
Overall I'm caught up on his lack of moral courage to take unpopular political decisions. Perhaps the U.S. would have been better served by 2 term or single term presidents who cared less for maintaining their political base, and more for plight of Jews (FDR did essentially nothing for Jewish immigrants), his own Japanese citizens (interned), the Allied cause (didn't enter the war before he was attacked, and took fairly limited measures in advance of that to mobilize the country and support the Allies through Lend Lease).
