Posted on 09/07/2022 6:28:59 AM PDT by statestreet
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 these questions — or this one: How can history be written as a newspaper headline?
Call this a biography by indirection. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defined by competing individuals and movements: Huey Long, Father Coughlan, Al Smith, the Liberty League, Earl Browder and the Communist Party, Dr. Francis Townsend and the Townsend Plan, Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party. They threatened FDR’s majority in the 1936 election.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
What about “Franklin Delano Romanowski”?
David’s a good guy-—haven’t read this book, but was on the old Glenn Beck show with him many times.
“Indirection”?
Socalist traitor.
It sounds like Citizen Kane.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Above is an old thread with a long booklet called “The Revolution Was” written in 1938 about FDR and the New Deal.
I first read it when Obama was in office and so much of what this guy writes about that FDR was doing fit Obama to a “T”. Even some of Obama’s phrases were reworkings of FDR.
I found it to be an interesting and entertaining read, and very eye-opening.
When I was a teen I couldn’t understand why my dad (WWII vet) hated FDR so much. In my twenties I learned why to some degree. But this booklet explains a lot!
From the recent book review:
“...while Roosevelt himself appears in cameos as an opportunist looking to see what works.”
From 1938:
“Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern....
...Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another... The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.
The end held constantly in view was power.”
Archie Bunker : [Maude refuses to get out of Archie's chair] Well, I got the secret weapon that can lay this little lady right away. Here we go. This country was ruined by Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Cousin Maude : You're fat.
Archie Bunker : Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Edith Bunker : Archie, you promised never to say that name again in front of Maude.
Archie Bunker : Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Edith Bunker : [to Maude] He don't mean nothing. His whole family was for Roosevelt.
Archie Bunker : That was for two terms. But that was it. We didn't know the guy was going to hold on to the job like a pope!
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