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...Note the lack of a candidate's name. From Teddy Roosevelt to Ross Perot to Jesse Ventura to Ralph Nader, American third parties have appeared on the national radar screen and then faded from it, with equal alacrity, for one main reason: They are cults of personality...
...Over six decades, Schlesinger has divided himself between the roles of historian (author, notably, of the three-volume "The Age of Roosevelt," about FDR) 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...
...chip was missing, as in an alien who cannot weep or fall in love. I tried to banter with him. He flat-lined. His face stared back in blank, serene incomprehension. For an instant I had a flash of Henny Youngman trying to get a laugh out of Eleanor Roosevelt...
...flash in which Henny Youngman turned into Franklin Roosevelt...
...Roosevelt said: "Take my wife. Please...