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After delivering four of his fireside chats in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt decided he'd better give them less frequently. "The public psychology," he remarked, cannot be "attuned for long periods of time to a constant repetition of the highest note on the scale...
Over six decades, Schlesinger has divided himself between the roles of historian (author, notably, of the three-volume The Age of Roosevelt, about F.D.R.) and activist-courtier. His memoir assembles an all-star cast, with anecdotes and subplots playing through the grand events of the Depression and the New Deal, of World War II and the postwar years when the cold war set in, and Schlesinger was a leader of the American "NCL"--the valiantly anti-Stalinist, noncommunist left...
Progressive Party Harvardian Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, came in second, with 4,119,538 votes...
According to Brinkley, would-be presidents climb the political ladder through one of two models. The first: an elite background. Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson are all examples of this, as are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, John F. Kennedy '40 and Bush...
...only comfort to be taken from this race is the knowledge that what happens in presidential campaigns almost never has the slightest bearing on the history that occurs thereafter. Franklin Roosevelt, for example, campaigned in 1940 on the promise that America would not get involved in the European war. Nixon told campaign audiences in 1968 that he had a secret plan for getting out of Vietnam. George Bush Senior went across the American landscape shouting "READ MY LIPS, NO NEW TAXES." Henry Ford said, "All history is more or less bunk." All campaign promises are more or less bunk. Every...