<p> Few families have influenced America like the Roosevelts--two presidents from different parties including our longest-serving chief executive and the First Lady of the World. Born into aristocratic society Theodore Franklin and Eleanor (nee) Roosevelt shared a commitment to progress and the common good over class. Their lives have been the focus of numerous books but their legacy and the extended family they left behind warrant a closer look. This book chronicles the Roosevelts and those other Roosevelts--a family of individuals always striving to measure up but united by an illustrious past.</p>