My Friends 28 Famous Speeches Author:Franklin Delano Roosevelt President Roosevelt's 28 most famous fireside chats, with a separate pamphlet about The Little White House (Warm Springs, GA). Speeches cover the depression of the 1930's, trade, international relations and, of course, World War II. This is not a new book--its a 4th printing, June 1951. But it's an interesting walk through the history of the time.