Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Books
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Looking ForwardPublished in March 1933 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first inaugurated, the classic New York Times bestseller Looking Forward delivers F.D.R.'s...Read More
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Chicago Sun-Times, November 20, 2009
...s baritone was weak as he lamented the war in Afghanistan, longed for the presidency of the 'gallant' Franklin Roosevelt and looked downward, presumably to a place very far from McCourt, as he called out to his fallen (and unforgiven) conservative enemy,...
Bradenton Herald, November 19, 2009
...was writing for future readers.' Henry Stimson's memoir: Stimson, secretary of war under both the Taft and Franklin Roosevelt administrations, was a 'modest man' who thought he was 'a servant of the people.' Stinson dictated his memoir, 'On Active...
Edmonton Sun, November 19, 2009
...bound, his baritone weak as he lamented the war in Afghanistan, longed for the presidency of the “gallant” Franklin Roosevelt and looked downward, presumably to a place very far from McCourt, as he called out to his fallen (and unforgiven)...
Seattle Times, November 19, 2009
...s baritone was weak as he lamented the war in Afghanistan, longed for the presidency of the "gallant" Franklin Roosevelt and looked downward, presumably to a place very far from McCourt, as he called out to his fallen (and unforgiven) conservative enemy,...
News24.com, November 19, 2009
...bound, his baritone weak as he lamented the war in Afghanistan, longed for the presidency of the 'gallant' Franklin Roosevelt and looked downward, presumably to a place very far from McCourt, as he called out to his fallen (and unforgiven) conservative...
104.9 EZ Rock, November 19, 2009
...bound, his baritone weak as he lamented the war in Afghanistan, longed for the presidency of the "gallant" Franklin Roosevelt and looked downward, presumably to a place very far from McCourt, as he called out to his fallen (and unforgiven) conservative...
Seattle Times, November 19, 2009
...bound, his baritone weak as he lamented the war in Afghanistan, longed for the presidency of the "gallant" Franklin Roosevelt and looked downward, presumably to a place very far from McCourt, as he called out to his fallen (and unforgiven) conservative...
Yahoo! News, November 17, 2009
...with the high starched-collar shirt was out of touch, electing instead one of America's most populist presidents: Franklin Roosevelt. horrified Hoover as a departure from America's traditions of citizen independence and limited government. He feared that...
Jackson Sun, October 28, 2009
...at Brandeis University, Fischer will address the topic, 'Leaders in an Open Society: The Presidencies of Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama.'Fischer is the author of 10 books, including 'Washington's Crossing,' for which he received...
Associated Content, October 22, 2009
...Bully pulpit Triangular Deal Elkins Act John Muir Thoedore Roosevelt Hepburn Act Square Deal Upton Sinclair Gifford Pinchot Franklin Roosevelt The Jungle Pure Food and Drug Act Meat Inspection Act By: Jacob Horn (Paragould, Arkansas...
NWTNToday.com, October 21, 2009
...of History at Brandeis University, will address the topic, “Leaders in an Open : The Presidencies of Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama.” Fischer is the author of 0 books, including “Washington’s Crossing,” for which he...
New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, October 21, 2009
...West Virginia Book Festival in Charleston, W.V. The judges picked Remember Me: Tomah Joseph's Gift to Franklin Roosevelt for the third annual Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Gold Award in the multicultural-picture book category. Donald Soctomah and Jean...
Sunday Gazette-Mail, October 9, 2009
...titled Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party. It claims that the Mafia helped put Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and other Democratic presidents into the White House. It accuses the party of 'shameless bribery, illicit sex,...
First Post, October 5, 2009
...sweeping corruption'. Further promotional material for the book posted by Lynn Vincent's magazine promised the following: How Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F Kennedy were elected with the help of the Mob; What two eyewitnesses said about...
The Stirrer, October 4, 2009
...to the US and the whole world) if Charles Lindbergh had stood for president in 1940 and defeated Franklin Roosevelt. Read this book now. Fascism does not arrive with the force of a tsunami, destroying everything in minutes. It is first apparent in the...
New York Post, September 29, 2009
...Iranian highlands. Archibald MacLeish [1892-1882], a poet, playwright, Librarian of Congress and Assistant Secretary of State under President Franklin Roosevelt, famously uttered, ?Once your permit those who are convinced of their own superior...
Charleston Gazette, September 25, 2009
...profits. 'It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them,' Franklin Roosevelt told a Madison Square Garden audience in 1936. Nothing could illustrate his point better than the sight of people who need health...
Chattanooga Times Free Press, September 24, 2009
...Avenue and Cherry Street. It was built with the help of a Works Projects Administration grant from the Franklin Roosevelt administration. Corrina Sisk-Casson is based in Dunlap. She may be reached at corrinacasson1@aol.com. TO LEARN MORE Patrons are...
Hudson Hub Times, September 23, 2009
...other books. 'What I learned about human nature studying Benjamin Franklin gave me insight into the generation of Franklin Roosevelt,' he said. Brands frequently appears on national and international television and radio programs, commenting on historic...
Huffington Post, September 20, 2009
...Golden Age of radio.'' He once commanded audiences of tens of millions of listeners, and deservedly so. President Franklin Roosevelt called upon him to write a radio play for the end of World War II, ''On a Note of Triumph.'' It is celebratory and...
Charleston Gazette, September 18, 2009
...profits. 'It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them,' Franklin Roosevelt told a Madison Square Garden audience in 1936. Nothing could illustrate his point better than the sight of people who need health...
PR Newswire, September 16, 2009
...working at Time where he created 'Time and the Presidency,' a multi-media program which featured photographs of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt through William Clinton from the Time & Life archive. The project included a traveling exhibition that appeared...
Observer, September 12, 2009
...of Independence, such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and at least a dozen presidents including Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford, were powerful masons. 'George Washington was the biggest mason of them all. He laid...
Guardian Unlimited, September 12, 2009
...of Independence, such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and at least a dozen presidents including Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford, were powerful masons. 'George Washington was the biggest mason of them all. He laid...
The Australian, September 6, 2009
...updrafts of Churchill's Georgian literary vocabulary, while Americans learned about it through the relaxed Victorian cadences of Franklin Roosevelt. (Even our own Ben Chifley, a more prosaic orator, spent his straitened adolescence immersed in...
The Australian, September 6, 2009
...updrafts of Churchill's Georgian literary vocabulary, while Americans learned about it through the relaxed Victorian cadences of Franklin Roosevelt. (Even our own Ben Chifley, a more prosaic orator, spent his straitened adolescence immersed in...
Lakeland Ledger, September 4, 2009
...while, but now we've got a home."The first lecture in this year's series will be "Franklin Roosevelt, Florida and the South," scheduled for Sept. 10. It will be delivered by H.W. Brands, professor of history at the University of Texas in Austin.Brands...
Burbank Leader, September 2, 2009
...anything resembling government action. During the 1920s, lack of government action prompted the beginning of the Depression. President Franklin Roosevelt?s government program helped to rejuvenate the economy, although it took World War II to actually...
New York Times, August 15, 2009
...they will be valued, valuable, free. (The novels title comes from a State of the Union address by Franklin Roosevelt, himself partially paralyzed, who functions as a presiding spirit.) Crowley sometimes has trouble with endings. The book goes on one...
Khaleej Times, August 9, 2009
...popularity to insist on meaningful needed new and sustained deficit spending. Yes, deficit spending. It took all of Franklin Roosevelt?s guile and eloquence to push things and maintain the New Deal recovery. Abhorrent dictator Adolf Hitler, bent on...
KansasCity.com, August 5, 2009
...that foretold the future and quite possibly saved the world. In it, the Hungarian-born physicist introduced to President Franklin Roosevelt the probability that vast amounts of power would be produced by a nuclear chain reaction. This new phenomenon...
Caledon Citizen, August 1, 2009
...of those in high places. Winston Churchill called BCATP 'the decisive factor in winning the war.' American President Franklin Roosevelt called it 'the aerodrome of democracy.' 'They were the men behind the glory,' Barris said...
The Saudi Gazette, August 1, 2009
...He was accompanied by 101-year-old Captain Joe Grant who flew a DC-3, which was a gift from President Franklin Roosevelt to King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, and Delano Franklin Roosevelt, the grandson of the former president. Following the tour, Prince Sultan...
Blogger News Network, July 30, 2009
...live above the jail, which is located in a rock castle with turrets and a moat thanks to Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, Wendell is not too fond of the idea of having Deadhand for a houseguest, so to speak. Something of much more import quickly...
American Spectator, July 22, 2009
...thousand planes with a range of thirty-three hundred miles.? That would be news to Germany?s aircraft industry. Franklin Roosevelt?s 1936 State of the Union address supposedly boldly blamed the growing possibility of war ?on autocrats in...
Irish World News, July 9, 2009
...the plug on Bobby after he was shot and not his wife, Ethel. 'Everybody knew about the affair,' Franklin Roosevelt Jnr, JFK's undersecretary of commerce, says in the book. 'I suspect Bobby would've liked to dump Ethel and marry Jackie, but, of course,...
Irish World News, July 9, 2009
...the plug on Bobby after he was shot and not his wife, Ethel. 'Everybody knew about the affair,' Franklin Roosevelt Jnr, JFK?s undersecretary of commerce, says in the book. 'I suspect Bobby would?ve liked to dump Ethel and marry Jackie, but, of...
Malaysia Sun, July 7, 2009
...Kennedy, was assassinated. There are a few political insiders and celebrities who have been quoted in the book. Franklin Roosevelt Jr, who worked with John F. Kennedy in the White House, says in the book: 'Everybody knew about the affair. The two of them...
Huliq.com, July 6, 2009
...Jackie, not his wife, Ethel Kennedy, who instructed doctors to pull the plug. In the book, the late Franklin Roosevelt Jr., who served as JFK's undersecretary of commerce, says: 'Everybody knew about the affair. The two of them carried on like a pair of...
MSNBC, July 6, 2009
...and father of 11 was the former first lady's one 'true love.''Everybody knew about the affair,' Franklin Roosevelt Jr., JFK's undersecretary of commerce, says in the book. 'I suspect Bobby would've liked to dump (wife) Ethel and marry Jackie, but, of...
Chicago Tribune, July 4, 2009
...been a U.S. senator for 54 years, a reliable ally of presidents (Democratic ones, at least) from Franklin Roosevelt to to Lyndon Johnson. Alec's father remains disappointed that his son turned his back on politics, working instead as a newspaper...
MidlandsBiz, June 29, 2009
...media in past and present campaigns: from the use of photography during the campaigns of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt; to the rise of both radio and television as they documented conventions and debates; to the birth of the political media...
New York Times, June 27, 2009
...movie.) The books terrifically vivid president may vacation in Key West like Harry Truman, but hes otherwise all Franklin Roosevelt: charming, theatrical, double-crossing; a love-him-or-hate-him chief executive whos called that seducer DeGaulles word for...
Peoples Weekly World, June 17, 2009
...Teachers College. Hodes liked to recall a very wet day when she and other young people visited President Franklin Roosevelt, hoping to discuss shared goals. However, Roosevelt quickly ended the session, suggesting as she later told the story that the...
Observer-Reporter, June 11, 2009
...the 1940s that the speaker and president pro tempore entered the line of succession before the cabinet, after Franklin Roosevelt died in office and Harry Truman became president. Obviously, the line of presidential succession has never gone as far as the...
Daily News Journal, June 9, 2009
...People: Writing America's Story,' about the Federal Writers' Project. The FWP was a small section of President Franklin Roosevelt's mammoth Works Progress Administration. Hundreds of thousands of people had lost their jobs. Banks were collapsing. People...
Erie Times-News, June 8, 2009
...were outnumbered by 695 World War I veterans in four work camps that had been set up by Franklin Roosevelt similar to those built for the Civilian Conservation Corps. Some residents were prepared for a storm but not one of this magnitude. Others were...
Daily News Journal, May 25, 2009
...Writers' Project during the Great Depression and its lasting legacy. The FWP was one small part of President Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to put people back to work. Audience members will be invited to ask questions, describe their experiences relating...
Huffington Post, May 22, 2009
...Cons reveals: --How corrupt Democrats in Congress outnumber corrupt Republicans by as much as three to one. --How Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy were elected with the help of the Mob. --What two eyewitnesses said about JFK's...
Appalachian Today, May 20, 2009
...worked for the Federal Writers? Project early in his career. The FWP was a small section of President Franklin Roosevelt?s mammoth Works Progress Administration, designed to get America back to work after the Depression. It was responsible for the...
Litchfield County Times, May 8, 2009
...was too politically barbed. He laughed politely, but he didn't like it.' Mr. Morris said that since Franklin Roosevelt's day, the spoken and written words of presidents have become so much the province of speechwriters 'it is difficult to tell if you are...
Daily News Journal, May 4, 2009
...Writers' Project to be broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel HD. The FWP was a small section of President Franklin Roosevelt's mammoth Works Progress Administration, designed to get America back to work after the Depression. Among the day's activities: At...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 3, 2009
...how Joseph Stalin was brutal to his enemies and more brutal to his former friends. He reports that Franklin Roosevelt could be duplicitous and manipulative, and that Winston Churchill, was, well, Churchill. Much of this material, while well laid out, is...
Bigfork Eagle, April 30, 2009
...from the north end of Electric Avenue, which were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Photo training was part of the grant; homage to the hundreds of thousands of indelible images captured by the...
Miami Herald, April 26, 2009
...not gloss over dark periods of local Jewish history -- such as World War II. In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt turned away the SS St. Louis, a boat carrying 937 Jews fleeing from Germany, despite protests in Bayfront Park. They returned home and most...
OnlineAthens, April 25, 2009
...a short 1936 article by Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas that ridicules Republicans for trying to portray President Franklin Roosevelt as a socialist, just as many in the GOP try to tar President Barack Obama with the socialist brush today. Other...
Common Dreams, April 24, 2009
...a bit, but three consecutive Republican presidents in the 1920s led us straight into the Republican Great Depression. Franklin Roosevelt, his distant cousin, rebooted capitalism in the 1930s, ushering in an era of regulated capitalism - embraced by...
Appalachian Today, April 23, 2009
...library.appstate.edu/soul. The Soul of a People focuses on the Federal Writer?s Project, part of President Franklin Roosevelt?s mammoth Works Progress Administration project (WPA). The WPA was designed to provide employment for out-of-work Americans...
Miami Herald, April 17, 2009
...Called Soul of the People: Writing Florida's Story, the exhibit looks back at the 1930s when President Franklin Roosevelt was trying to get the country back to work during the Great Depression. ''We are going through tough times now, but people have done...
InOttawa.com, March 30, 2009
...very powerful read. 'Greenspan?s Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve' by William A. Fleckenstein. Franklin Roosevelt said to the affect, 'Nothing in politics happens by accident; you can rest assured it was planned that way.' When one...
El Paso Times, March 29, 2009
...collected from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The Federal Writers' Project, part of President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, was designed to put Americans back to work after the Great Depression. The programs are co-sponsored by the...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 22, 2009
...the last 80 pages to an overview of Kennedy's subsequent career, starting with his active campaigning for Franklin Roosevelt and going on to his stints as chairman of the newly created Securities and Exchange Commission and ambassador to Great Britain....
Index Journal, March 19, 2009
...Iraq, Pakistan, nuclear weapons, global warming, cyber war and more were outlined in the briefings. ?No president since Franklin Roosevelt has entered the Oval Office with a more complex agenda than Obama,? Sanger said. Sanger took questions from...
Boston Globe, March 17, 2009
...Corporation to battle the Great Depression. The RFC, blessed by Hoover with a then-extravagant budget and expanded by Franklin Roosevelt, lavished loans on financial companies, railroads, and states and bought stock in thousands of banks. Conservatives...
Yahoo!, March 6, 2009
...Obama to rush his agenda through this year. They can't allow Obama to make of 2009 what Franklin Roosevelt made of 1933 or Johnson of 1965. Slow down the policy train.' Otherwise, Kristol complains, Republicans will be 'reduced to the unpleasant role of...
Book Reporter, March 4, 2009
...it was the only answer. How many know that it was Albert Einstein who planted the idea with Franklin Roosevelt to develop an atomic bomb? That and many other fascinating tidbits of historical information work to enrich this story that began during those...
Boston Globe, March 2, 2009
...of two fascinating, idealistic New Dealers. I wanted to write about former New Hampshire governor John Winant, whom Franklin Roosevelt appointed US ambassador to Great Britain during World War II to undo the damage wrought by Winant's predecessor, Joseph...
96.1 KISS FM NY, February 20, 2009
...Milnes, a fellow of the Queen's University Centre for the Study of Democracy, the book focuses on Franklin Roosevelt's 1938 speech at Queen's University, regarded as the most influential speech ever delivered by a U. S. president in Canada...
BusinessWeek, February 19, 2009
...that the government hasn't just invested in the hard assets of land and highways either. In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill, which allowed millions of returning World War II veterans to obtain college degrees or acquire vocational training....
Ascribe, February 14, 2009
...Cleburne. His previous book, 'Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History,' won the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Prize for Naval History. As a faculty member, Symonds became the first person to win both the Naval Academy's...
Portland Press Herald, February 10, 2009
...of several books on the history of the Maine working class, lucidly describes the myriad ways that President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal spending created jobs for thousands of Maine workers and made available enormous quantities of food and clothing to...
Chicago Sun-Times, February 1, 2009
...the last 80 pages to an overview of Kennedy's subsequent career, starting with his active campaigning for Franklin Roosevelt and going on to his stints as chairman of the newly created Securities and Exchange Commission and ambassador to Great Britain....
US News, January 23, 2009
...can learn. Read more by Robert Schlesinger. Read more from the Thomas Jefferson Street blog. Read more about Franklin Roosevelt...
Associated Content, January 21, 2009
...the speech was done, that there is no singular punchline that we will remember. We did not witness Franklin Roosevelt (1933) proclaiming, 'We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.' We did not observe John Kennedy (1961) exhorting, 'Ask not what your...
Indian Express, January 19, 2009
...John Kennedy's 1961 cry that 'the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,' and Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 speech during the Great Depression. Obama, a big fan of fellow Illinois man Lincoln, told 'USA Today' he felt Lincoln's speech was...
Port Huron Times-Herald, January 19, 2009
...Jefferson sought common ground between brand new political parties. Abraham Lincoln tried unsuccessfully to head off civil war. Franklin Roosevelt warned against fear itself, while John Kennedy pledged to bear any burden. Inaugural addresses gave these...
USA Today, January 19, 2009
...Jefferson sought common ground between brand new political parties. Abraham Lincoln tried unsuccessfully to head off civil war. Franklin Roosevelt warned against fear itself, while John Kennedy pledged to bear any burden. Inaugural addresses gave these...
International Herald Tribune, January 18, 2009
...grin radiating confidence - illustrations in both Time and The New Yorker last November rendered Barack Obama as Franklin Roosevelt redivivus. With the financial system imploding and doctrinaire conservatism roundly discredited, the comparisons in the...
Chicago Tribune, January 17, 2009
...television documentaries scheduled and celebrations planned around the country. Since his election, Obama also has encouraged analogies to Franklin Roosevelt, who led the nation through the Great Depression and . Obama told reporters he was reading a...
Chicago Tribune, January 17, 2009
...television documentaries scheduled and celebrations planned around the country. Since his election, Obama also has encouraged analogies to Franklin Roosevelt, who led the nation through the Great Depression and . Obama told reporters he was reading a...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 7, 2009
...Andrew, secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Hoover, who was singled out for major blame by Franklin Roosevelt for the Depression. The quote showed up in 'Radical Images,' a chapter of Malcolm Cowley's 1980 memoirs, 'The Dream of the Golden...
Viet Nam News, January 6, 2009
...work in the English language, The Prophet, expounds his philosophy with a vivid use of metaphor. US President Franklin Roosevelt defines the American goal of Four Freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear....
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 6, 2009
...Andrew, secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Hoover, who was singled out for major blame by Franklin Roosevelt for the Depression. The quote showed up in 'Radical Images,' a chapter of Malcolm Cowley's 1980 memoirs, 'The Dream of the Golden...
International Herald Tribune, December 29, 2008
...also 'probably part con man.' The modern U.S.-Saudi relationship began during World War II, when President Franklin Roosevelt declared, 'The defense of Saudi Arabia is vital to the defense of the United States,' and at first it must have seemed like...
Report On Business, December 16, 2008
...to your goals, and if you rush too far ahead you fail. You will learn this really from Franklin Roosevelt, if I can just go back to the 1930s. Roosevelt understood that if he was five giant steps ahead of his people, he would fail. He understood if he...
Houston Chronicle, December 10, 2008
...war. We got economic collapse. Obama naturally will want to dig even more deeply into the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, who grappled with both. The new president wont have the time to plough through Kenneth Davis and Frank Freidels and James...
Reuters UK, December 7, 2008
...in some of the blanks.' When U.S. President-elect Barack Obama mentioned he was reading about former President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression, sales of Jonathan Alter's 'The Defining Moment' and Jean Edward Smith's 'FDR' spiked,...
Reuters, December 4, 2008
...in some of the blanks.' When U.S. President-elect Barack Obama mentioned he was reading about former President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression, sales of Jonathan Alter's 'The Defining Moment' and Jean Edward Smith's 'FDR' spiked,...
Forbes.com, December 4, 2008
...in some of the blanks.' When U.S. President-elect Barack Obama mentioned he was reading about former President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression, sales of Jonathan Alter's 'The Defining Moment' and Jean Edward Smith's 'FDR' spiked,...
Times Leader, November 30, 2008
...Mississippi, the last dry state in the Union, ended Prohibition in 1966. ? On Dec. 4, 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt closes the books on the Work Projects Administration (WPA), one of the government?s most ambitious public-works programs. Fueled...
Hartford Courant, November 23, 2008
...Kearns Goodwin's Lincoln biography, 'Team of Rivals,' and for a work about the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's administration, Jonathan Alter's 'The Defining Moment.' Honorary award winner Maxine Hong Kingston, who, like Obama, spent many years in...
The Hungry Readers:, October 22, 2009
...Soctomah, D. & Flahive, J. (2009). Remember Me: Tomah Joseph's Gift to Franklin Roosevelt . Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, Publishers. 9780884483007 In the vain of Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek , Remember Me shares a story of a ten-year-old Franklin...
The Ebooks Review, October 4, 2009
...reporters Murray Kempton and Pete Hamill. Schiff’s personal life was aglitter with romances with prominent men, including Franklin Roosevelt, and she was not averse to using her social status and personal charm to advance the Post . A thrilling...
Pinkpillbox.com, September 30, 2009
...and aspirations in domestic design: Jefferson inhabited an Anglo-aristo country estate; Jackson, a genteel villa enshrining democratic values; Franklin Roosevelt, a suburban crib with the design integrity of a midprice hotel chain. The evolution ended...
Steve Goddard's History Wire, September 23, 2009
...Occult America -- The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation by Mitch Horowitz, Bantam Books '09, $27, 290 pages, ISBN #0553806750. Index, note on sources, unillustrated. While it may be a tad much to say that over the years the occult world...
Opinion L.A., September 18, 2009
...Golden Age of radio; he once commanded audiences of tens of millions of listeners, and deservedly so. President Franklin Roosevelt called upon him to write a radio play for the end of World War II, ''On a Note of Triumph.'' It is celebratory and...
Carlitos Way's MySpace Blog, August 21, 2009
...that speak volumes about the intellectual bankruptcy and decayed moral authority of the political right? With apologies to Franklin Roosevelt, the only thing they have to sell is fear itself. And no, that's not patriotism. It is the cynical behavior of...
My World, August 7, 2009
...had a very quick mind, a tactical mind Reagan was the best leader in the white house since Franklin Roosevelt Reagan was a principled man, but he also had a contagious optimism about life If you are around leaders who always believe you get to that...
Power Line, June 9, 2009
...In the version of the lecture in which I first heard Kesler describe the three waves, he associated Franklin Roosevelt with the second wave and LBJ with the third wave. (The published version of the lecture does not discuss LBJ. Rather, in his discussion...
Wikipedia - New pages [en], June 8, 2009
...codename given to the unsuccessful plot to assassinate the "Big Three" Allied leaders, Joseph Stalin , Winston Churchill , and Franklin Roosevelt , at the 1943 Tehran Conference . [ 1 ] The plot was approved by Adolph Hitler and headed by Ernst...
Read Street, May 22, 2009
...Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party. The publisher's description of Donkey Cons says it "reveals ... How Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy were elected with the help of the Mob; What two eyewitnesses said about JFK's...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run, May 17, 2009
...said for treating consenting adults like, well, adults. But there is an economic argument as well, one that Franklin Roosevelt understood when he promised to end Prohibition during the 1932 presidential campaign. "Our tax burden would not be so...
RightyBlogs.com » National, May 17, 2009
...said for treating consenting adults like, well, adults. But there is an economic argument as well, one that Franklin Roosevelt understood when he promised to end Prohibition during the 1932 presidential campaign. "Our tax burden would not be so heavy nor...
American Presidents Blog, May 5, 2009
...one of the really great," an interesting comment given his own fate of succeeding a great man, Franklin Roosevelt, 11 years later. He was not fond of men such as Alexander the Great or Napoleon. "I could never admire a man whose only interest is...
LewRockwell.com Blog, May 1, 2009
...by Lew Rockwell at May 1, 2009 02:10 PM From the Mises Book Store: The policies of Franklin Roosevelt kept the country in an unnecessary depression for many years. The lesson one might think is obvious: don't do that kind of thing any more! So what does...
Bill's Big Diamond Blog, May 1, 2009
...the prose of the Federal Writer’s Project were but a bit of the product of these programs Franklin Roosevelt’s administration promulgated to keep not just America’s blue collar workers on the job, but also America’s most prized intellects and...
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias, April 22, 2009
...to get it." Obama "gets" the America-haters. But how would Obama respond to the charge that Franklin Roosevelt’s "Good Neighbor Policy" or John Kennedy’s "Alliance for Progress" was just more imperialistic...
Culture Monster, April 21, 2009
...Meacham, 39, is the editor of Newsweek and author of earlier books on the founding fathers and President Franklin Roosevelt. Strout, author of the earlier novels “Amy and Isabelle” and “Abide With Me,” composed “Olive Kitteridge” as...
Wash Post Style, April 21, 2009
...The Washington Post Co.) Meacham, the author of acclaimed works about the Founding Fathers and the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, said his bestselling Jackson volume benefited from Barack Obama's election (the book was...
Left Coast Cowboys, April 18, 2009
...Two things I’ve been reading about lately: gardening and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Both are related to the economic woes we’re experiencing. Typically, food bills wouldn’t be the bulk of our budget, and not the logical place...
NO QUARTER, April 18, 2009
...I remember checking out of the library as a child, was a biography of the President and Mrs Franklin Roosevelt. Since biographies of women in politics, were virtually unknown at that time, it left a lasting impression. And well, I’ve pretty much been...
roger hollander, April 15, 2009
...for armed revolution, and once again, a portion of their listeners erupt into violence. ”In Politics,” President Franklin Roosevelt once said, “nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” ...
Talk Wisdom, April 13, 2009
...Outranks Private Profit,” and the aims proclaimed for the German political state were exactly those promised by Franklin Roosevelt in his first inaugural address of April 1933. In a 1927 speech, Hitler said, “We are socialists, we are enemies...
Chrisy58's Weblog, April 7, 2009
...in what Time in 1939 called “one of the grimmest migrations of history.” By then the Depression and Franklin Roosevelt had shaken up the country’s conscience, but Steinbeck gave the decade’s angers its voice. It was outraged and lyrical - as...
Legal Theory Blog, April 1, 2009
...put principles of liberty and equality into higher law. Another wrenching transformation occurred during the Great Depression, when Franklin Roosevelt and his New Dealers vindicated a new vision of activist government against an assault by the Supreme...
Sweetness & Light, March 23, 2009
...Founding Fathers and lessons drawn from history as well as the most recent news. He concentrates especially on Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Which is most appropriate since it was Mr. Roosevelt who really set the country on the road to socialism and...
Daily Kos, March 22, 2009
...are unexpected and illuminating, and historian Anthony Badger's explorations of what worked and what didn't in Franklin Roosevelt's first few months are vital pieces of a puzzle that Americans should consider when weighing the possible effects of...
Positive Thinking to Personal Success, March 11, 2009
...CONSERVATIVE THEOLOGY SCRIPTURE CHURCH BAPTIST CATHOLIC capitalism free market socialism communism GAZA Israel PALENSTINE WAR stimulus bailout tarp franklin roosevelt fdr new deal JOEL OLSTEEN TD JAKES CREFLO DOLLAR … See the rest here: biography of...
The Strange Death of Liberal America, March 7, 2009
...watershed changes in political, economic and social policy. So in the last century we had Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. I am going to venture way out on a limb here and argue that Federalist Ten helps us to understand the current impasse as a...
My Kindle Stuff, March 5, 2009
...into the second half of the twentieth century. Settling Accounts In at the Death by Harry Turtledove Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at...
Website Developement, March 5, 2009
...the book’s pages, their movements disturbed and rearranged text dynamically—a fitting motif for the text’s subject, Franklin Roosevelt’s speech on the four freedoms. Jonathan Harris agrees. Harris created We Feel Fine with Sep Kamvar in 2005 out...
meagan, March 3, 2009
...very strong. Eleanor & Franklin-complete set 1970’s Detailed and engaging recounting of the life and Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Based on a Pulitzer prize winning novel and originally shown on network television back in the days when “the big...
911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related, February 28, 2009
...disclosure has been a strong theme of political contention and the source of conspiracy theory, from suspicions that Franklin Roosevelt knew in advance of the attack on Pearl Harbor up to the George W. Bush Administration's allegations of connections...
The Dougout, February 28, 2009
...endorsed Obama’s vision and revealed that Obama’s “faith-based initiative” has little to do with religion: Like Franklin Roosevelt, Obama sought to restore the public’s faith that the private economy would recover by bolstering confidence in...
The Strange Death of Liberal America, February 23, 2009
...be sufficient to provide funding to such State. The FDR Test The first part of this series evoked Franklin Roosevelt’s 1932 acceptance speech as a touchstone for an economic recovery program. Remember that in this speech he issued a stern warning about...
carol, February 22, 2009
...very strong. Eleanor & Franklin-complete set 1970’s Detailed and engaging recounting of the life and Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Based on a Pulitzer prize winning novel and originally shown on network television back in the days when “the big...
nora, February 15, 2009
...very strong. Eleanor & Franklin-complete set 1970’s Detailed and engaging recounting of the life and Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Based on a Pulitzer prize winning novel and originally shown on network television back in the days when “the big...
porter, February 14, 2009
...very strong. Eleanor & Franklin-complete set 1970’s Detailed and engaging recounting of the life and Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Based on a Pulitzer prize winning novel and originally shown on network television back in the days when “the big...
Art Machine, February 12, 2009
...then I visit boing boing and I am immediately gobsmacked by the idiocy of neo-Randbunctious ideology. “When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression,” [Republican Representative Steve] Austria said. “He...
rashad, February 9, 2009
...very strong. Eleanor & Franklin-complete set 1970’s Detailed and engaging recounting of the life and Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Based on a Pulitzer prize winning novel and originally shown on network television back in the days when “the big...
ROY MITCHELL-CARDENAS, February 7, 2009
...WHY YOU SHOULD DROP OUT OF LAW SCHOOL 1. Launch Your Political Career. Would Lyndon Johnson, William McKinley, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Woodrow Wilson ever have gotten to the White House if they hadn't dropped out of law...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog, February 5, 2009
...2006-7. As Fareed Zakaria notes, "The episodes on the United States, for example, deal extensively with Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt's programs to regulate and tame capitalism"; see Post-American World, p. 107. 242. Yes, many American national...
New Trommetter Times, February 3, 2009
...Great Depression One of the great, seemingly indestructible myths inculcated into the craniums of American youth is that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal saved America from the Great Depression. It is the foundational myth of modern Democratic...
Pastor Mike's Web Home, February 1, 2009
...remarkable as this may seem, our president was able to hide a disability from the general public. President Franklin Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down and essentially wheelchair-bound in private. When he had to make a speech in public, a...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog, January 30, 2009
...2001), p. 4; cited in Borgwardt, New Deal for the World, p. 15. 133. Woodrow Wilson knew, as Franklin Roosevelt . . . he sought to end that system. Quoted in Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy, p. 456. 134. His replacement . . . "normalcy," withdrawing...
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias, January 27, 2009
...the military." At least 75 periodicals were banned by the postmaster general. During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt gave FBI director J. Edgar Hoover the power to censor all news or communications entering or leaving America. Blankley notes...
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias, January 25, 2009
...his book First Son, said last week that the governor had recently read biographies of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt when he interviewed him. Indeed, many times during his five years as governor, Mr. Bush has asked me what I was reading that...
Shelf Talk, January 20, 2009
...out the YouTube video, called “ 39 Words That Make a President “, which shows (in 10 minutes) every president since Franklin Roosevelt taking the oath of office? There’s also an official video from the U.S. Senate called “ So Help Me God...
No Compromise When it Comes to Being Right!, January 18, 2009
...King, not far from Lincoln’s. Only four men in American history have national monuments: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt; and now King will make five. King is the only American who enjoys the nation’s highest honor of having a...
landen, January 16, 2009
...newly released documentation of interactions with such figures as Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, every president from Grover Cleveland to Franklin Roosevelt, and movie giants Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and Irving Thalberg, David Nasaw completes the...
juneausailingclub.org, December 30, 2008
...E. Trapp, (1877-1951), Oklahoma Governor, Robinson, Kansas. Harry Hines Woodring, (1890-1967), Kansas Governor and Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt, Elk City, Kansas. Ron Wyden, (born 1949), Oregon Senator, Wichita, Kansas. Military and national...
History News Network, December 15, 2008
...center. Being a muscular moderate entails having core principles, thinking big, but mastering the art of compromise too. Franklin Roosevelt understood that, as did the other president whom Lichtman identifies as a success, Ronald Reagan. To understand...
Aint It Lame, December 7, 2008
...was not always helpful to him. Some other Obama staffer scans a CliffsNotes version of a history of Franklin Roosevelt’s first year in office about 75 years ago and Obama decides that public make-work jobs are a neat idea. Again, if they had read...
PA Pundits - International, December 4, 2008
...–Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan “Unemployment is still below 7 percent; it was around 25 percent when Franklin Roosevelt became president. Less than 20 banks have failed, not the 4,000 that went under in the first part of 1933.”...
The Strange Death of Liberal America, December 3, 2008
...Some of these are true eye-openers. For example, one of Obama’s chief advisors has called for reviving Franklin Roosevelt’s Economic Bill of Rights. Finally all these arguments conveniently ignore the person who will play a central role in the Obama...
Buckeye Firearms Association - Defending Your Fire, December 2, 2008
...urged the Supreme Court to uphold Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban, saying the Dept. of Justice from Franklin Roosevelt through Bill Clinton had always believed the Second Amendment does not protect the rights of individuals to own guns for personal use....
Economic Trends, November 26, 2008
...Wednesday, November 26, 2008 The U.S. Depression: Mixing Fact and Fiction It is often asserted that President Franklin Roosevelt ended the U.S. economic recession. Unfortunately the facts are in conflict with the myth....
The Congress Blog, November 26, 2008
...not fools (like Bush, Rice and many others in the current administration), and taking a leaf from president Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal administration, will not be afraid to borrow from the liberal handbook as the need arises. What the progressives...
