FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression

For Further Reading

Learn more about President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Postmaster General James A. Farley, and postage stamps of the Great Depression from these books and websites.

  • Alexander, Thomas J. Farley’s Follies. Washington DC: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2009.
  • Alter, Jonathan. The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
  • Baur, Brian C. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Stamps of the United States 1933-45. Sidney, OH: Linn’s Stamp News, 1993.
  • Baur, Brian C. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Stamp-Collecting President. Sidney, OH: Linn’s Stamp News, 1999.
  • Cohen, Adam. Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America. New York: Penguin, 2009.
  • Delivering Hope: FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression. Washington DC: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2009.
  • Farley, James A. Behind the Ballots: The Personal History of a Politician. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938.
  • Farley, James A. “Foreword,” The Post Office Department. Gerald Cullinan. New York: Praeger, 1969.
  • FDR: The Stamp Collecting President, permanent exhibit at Roosevelt's Little White House.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Hyde Park, NY: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 2009.
  • Ganz, Cheryl R. and Daniel A. Piazza with M.T. Sheahan. Delivering Hope: FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression. Washington DC: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2009.
  • Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Touchstone, 1995.
  • Harmer, H.R., Inc. The Postage Stamp Collection of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Parts One to Four. 1946.
  • Johl, Max G. The United States Commemorative Stamps of the Twentieth Century, Volume II, 1935-1947. New York: H.L. Lindquist, 1947.
  • Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940. New York: Harper Row, 1963.
  • Morris, Melvin, Donald D. Saddler, and David A. Kent. The Roosevelts on Worldwide Stamps, ATA Handbook #144. Arlington TX: American Topical Association, 2003.
  • Musso, Anthony. FDR and the Post Office: A Young Boy’s Fascination, a World Leader’s Passion. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006.
  • Pitts, Joseph R. Mail to the Chief. Washington DC: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2009.
  • Shawen, Lena. A President’s Hobby: The Story of F.D.R.’s Stamps. New York: H.L. Lindquist, 1949.
  • Sloat, Ralph L. Farley’s Follies. Federalsburg, MD: Bureau Issues Association, 1979.
  • Smith, Jean Edward. FDR. New York: Random House, 2008.
  • Thomas, Bernice. The Stamp of FDR: Post Offices in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 2002.