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Have you Ever seen Michael J. Barrett '70 and Mark Roosevelt '78 in the same place at the same time...
...impressive (his last book was a biography of an American who led Chinese armies in the 19th century). The brooding, detailed cityscapes and rich historical set pieces are the best parts of The Alienist. Carr -- and the reader -- has great fun, in particular, with a chaotic scene in Theodore Roosevelt's parlor, as T.R.'s thoroughly modern children coax a pet owl to eat a defunct...
...appeared on camera as a commentator. The documentary echoes charges in Wyman's book that State Department bigots tried to suppress accounts of the genocide from gaining a wide audience and that they blocked Jewish refugees from entering the U.S. America and the Holocaust also attacks President Franklin D. Roosevelt for bending to political expediency in failing to take actions that might have saved more Jewish lives. Keepers of the F.D.R. flame -- notably historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. -- immediately responded that the program was biased and distorted...
Despite that effort, William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian of the Roosevelt era, agrees with Wyman that F.D.R.'s record on the Holocaust was "shameful." ^ The U.S. Government could not have prevented the Holocaust, Leuchtenburg explains, but it took little advantage of opportunities to help its victims. Consider the question of whether American bombers should have attacked the railroads and gas chambers at Auschwitz. The documentary contends that while American Jewish leaders were being told such raids would be too dangerous for airmen, U.S. bombers based in Italy were attacking an I.G. Farben factory less than 50 miles from the death...
Dawidowicz has written that historians should limit their moral judgments to "the is of history, not the ought." Robert Herzstein, author of Roosevelt & Hitler, concurs. Whatever his failures in dealing with the refugee issue, F.D.R. was "the most consequential anti-Nazi leader of his time." He quietly fought anti-Semitism at home and took enormous political risks in preparing the U.S. to join the Allies at a time when most Americans favored neutrality. "Suppose he had adhered to the Neutrality Act," says Herzstein. "What kind of world would the Jews have been in, in Europe? How many would have survived...