Intellectuals, academics, and most of the media slapped a halo over FDR to consecrate both his welfare state and his warring.

With seven decades having passed since the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, views about the 32nd president have become somewhat set in stone. As a leader, Roosevelt (1882-1945) is honored for ...

How can one write history so that it seems like a thriller? How does one write a biography without making the subject the centerpiece of the narrative? I have no idea if David Pietrusza asked himself ...

A 2013 Princeton analyst’s online study charted the most and least respected professions in America. For contempt, politician ranked a bit better than prostitute. It’s unlikely that public opinion has ...

Ken Burns’s recent video biography on PBS of the Roosevelts makes excruciatingly obvious, in a manner words cannot equal, the deterioration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s physical appearance in the ...