S1, E4: In the 1920s, memories of Theodore Roosevelt begin to fade. The Great War is over, Woodrow Wilson is ill and the American public is weary of domestic reform and events overseas. The Republican Party nominates Warren G Harding for president, while Democratic nominee James M Cox chooses 38-year-old Franklin D Roosevelt to be his running mate. FDR campaigns with relish and eventually persuades Eleanor to join him as he travels around the country.

Starring Jonathan Alter, Doris Kearns Goodwin