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The Common Cause
Year
2014
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
2h 0m
Rating
TV14
Performers
Peter Coyote, Paul Giamatti, Edward Herrmann, Meryl Streep
Directed By
Ken Burns
Publication Information
PBS
Summary
FDR shatters the third-term tradition, struggles to prepare a reluctant country to enter World War II and, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, helps set the course toward Allied victory. Meanwhile, Eleanor struggles to keep New Deal reforms alive in wartime and travels the Pacific to comfort wounded servicemen. Diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 1943 and with the war still raging, FDR resolves to conceal his condition and run for a fourth term.