Season 1
Cast & Crew
John Lithgow
James Roosevelt (voice)
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
Paul Giamatti
Theodore Roosevelt (voice)
Ken Burns
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Meryl Streep
Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)
David McCullough
Self - Historian
Edward Herrmann
Franklin Roosevelt (voice)
Theodore Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Self - Historian
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Episode Guide
A frail, asthmatic young Theodore Roosevelt transforms himself into a champion of the strenuous life, loses one great love and finds another, leads men into battle and then rises like a rocket to become the youngest president in American history at 42. Meanwhile, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, brought up as the pampered only child of adoring parents, follows his older cousin’s career with fascination.