1. Franklin Roosevelt
... , he had visited Europe eight times. During his childhood, though, he was taught at home by tutors and governesses (Edmund, 24). His parents doted on him and denied him the freedom to plan his own activities, to make mistakes, and to play with other children in the neighborhood whose families were not socially important. When Roosevelt was fourteen, his parents sent him to ... the fashionable Groton school and he traveled to the campus in Massachusetts on his family's private railway car (Edmund, 5). For Roosevelt, Groton was different because he was earning above average, but not ... i...
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- Grade Level: High School