cover image Susan Sarandon: Actress-Activist

Susan Sarandon: Actress-Activist

Marc Shapiro. Prometheus Books, $29.98 (287pp) ISBN 978-1-57392-928-8

In Nothing to Fear: FDR in Photographs, Roosevelt biographer Hugh Gregory Gallagher pays homage to the beloved president. The succinct text is secondary to the more telling photographs, which portray FDR alone, with his family and alongside heads of state. Besides photos of young Franklin on horseback with his father and images of FDR and Eleanor greeting wounded WWII vets, Gallagher assembles revealing photographs of Depression-era poverty, some familiar (like Dorothea Lange's depiction of an anonymous migrant woman) and others new. Similarly, this collection includes famous FDR photos, as well as many never before published. (Oct.)