SOURCE: "Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt," in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. LVII, No. 3, September, 1942, pp. 426-31.

In the following review of The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Muzzey considers the comprehensiveness and accuracy of this collection of presidential documents.

Supplementing the five volumes which covered the years of the governorship and the first presidential administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, these four volumes¹ (compiled and collated, like the previous ones, by Samuel I. Rosenman) cover the exceptionally important years of the second administration. As the titles suggest, the first two of these volumes are concerned primarily with our domestic situation and "dedicated," as President Roosevelt says in the opening sentence of the 1937 volume, "to the continuance of faith in democracy as the world's best hope." The last two volumes, in the same spirit of Lincolnian dedication, find the president increasingly concerned with the international problems...