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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1947-10-01/franklin-d-roosevelt-informal-biographyhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer talked about the emergence of the concept of a 'first 100 days' of a presidential term during ...

Elliott Roosevelt driving his father President Franklin Delano Roosevelt around the Dutch Branch Ranch during a 1937 visit. Courtesy Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, UTA Special Collections The ...