Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• 11/6/2022
  

  The Schlesinger Diaries—A Gift to Historians that Keeps Giving

  by Rafael Medoff

  The late historian's diaries highlight discrepancies between Schlesinger's public defenses of Franklin Roosevelt and his private knowledge of FDR's attitudes toward Jews and positions on the Holocaust. 

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• 10/30/2022
  

  The US Response to the Holocaust Was Part of a Longer Pattern of Appeasing Fascism

  by Roger Peace

  The Roosevelt administration's refusal to accept large numbers of Jewish refugees was of a piece with a pattern of diplomatic and economic solicitousness toward Nazi Germany. 

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/13/2022
  

  Robert Kuttner: If Dems Don't Go Big, Country May Go Fascist

  If the United States was lucky to avoid a fascist takeover in the 1930s, the country made much of its own luck through the New Deal. 

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Monopoly in the 20th Century: Roosevelt Warns of Concentrated Wealth and Fascism (Excerpt)

  by Thom Hartmann

  Franklin Roosevelt recognized that the concentrated economic power of big businesses was a threat to democratic society and a step on the road to fascism, and wasn't afraid to say it. 

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• 1-22-18
  

  Review of Robert Dallek’s "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life"

  by Walter G. Moss

  Dallek’s biography clearly demonstrates that FDR sought the proper political goal and possessed most of qualities needed to act politically wise. He deserves the esteem with which Dallek regards him.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  9-1-14
  

  The right’s food stamp embarrassment: A history lesson for the haters

  by Caitlin Rathe

  While conservatives love to beat up on the SNAP program, there's an awkward little fact that might horrify them.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  4-12-14
  

  America’s next great president: Why Obama’s departure paves the way for the next FDR

  by Michael Lind

  History explains the real differences between Obama and our liberal icons.

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• 2-10-14
  

  Review of James Tobin's "The Man He Became"

  by Bernard von Bothmer

  The greatest comeback in American political history?

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• Review of Richard Moe's "Roosevelt's Second Act"

  by Bernard von Bothmer

  Was the 1940 presidential election the most important in American history?