Interesting dissertation. I suggest all Freepers read John T. Flynn’s “The Roosevelt Myth” if they haven’t already. And pick up Amity Shlaes “The Forgotten Man” as well. One thing that stuck out in my mind when reading these books was what I call “The Hyde Park Connection.” Hyde Park is where not only Bill Ayers, Barack Obama and the leftist UIC/UC crowd lives. It is also where most of the architects of the New Deal lived. What is it about Chicago?
Different Hyde Park. In Roosevelt's case, Hyde Park, New York. (But why the same name? Kinda spooky. . .)
Back when the Ayers thing was hot - this was the excerpt I would pull from The Revolution Was, with some names added to bring it up 70 years to the present:
“To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff was the most exciting reading in the world. It was knowledge that gave him a sense of power. One who mastered the subject [Bill Ayers] to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing, that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at a single leap from this mean obscurity to the prestige of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius — that one might dream of becoming himself the next Lenin [OBAMA].”