Franklin D. Roosevelt
An Elegant (and Mythic) Portrait of F.D.R.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) salutes the flag during a parade in the late 1930’s.
Mr. Smith, author of biographies of John Marshall and Ulysses Grant, is at his best when Roosevelt is at his. read more »
Citizen Schlesinger: Historian Without End
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
I knew that one day I’d be reading in the paper about Arthur’s death, but never really believed read more »
A Narrow Slice of F.D.R., Energetically Revisited
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Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering his inaugural address on March 4, 1933.
Lincoln and Jefferson, not to mention Jesus Christ, are still ahead of Franklin D. read more »
State's Political Power Gives Way to Show Biz
Barry Blitt
George Pataki
PHILADELPHIA—The last time Republicans gathered in this city, they nominated a New Yorker with read more »
State's Political Power Gives Way to Show Biz
PHILADELPHIA—The last time Republicans gathered in this city, they nominated a New Yorker with a m read more »
Today's Observer
I bang my head against the impermeable object that is Eliot Spitzer for a bit, and wind up with this profile. It's mostly a look at Spitzer's personality and his campaign, though he does take a passing whack or two at Tom Suozzi and his "talents."
Jason talks to Bloomberg policy advisor Ester Fuchs, who offers one of the clearest looks yet at the ideological shifts away from the Giuliani years.
Also in the Observer's political pages, Martin Luther King, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...and Bush.
And You Thought World War II Was Over?
Historical falsification, when spoken by the President of the United States to slander one of his gr read more »
Another Fake Crisis From Bush's Minions
Evaluating the President's proposals to raid, ruin or-as he prefers to say-"reform" Social Security read more »
Here Comes Inflation, The Cruelest Tax of All
You don't have to pass a tax bill in Congress to raise people's taxes, and George W. read more »
There's No Braveheart Running the White House
He may run as the Fetus-Protector President or the Old-Time Religion President or the One-Man and On read more »
Lord Conrad Black: Arrogance, Pretense and Sleaze
In his tumescent 1,280-page doorstop-worthy biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lord Black, a.k. read more »
Justice for Sale In Unmarked Bills
The judicial scandal unfolding in Brooklyn, raising the issue of whether judges paid bribes to polit read more »
The Right Kind of Growth Won't Be Easy to Find
Is it growth or is it cancer? read more »
Fear Subsuming Offensive Goals of War on Iraq
A particularly brilliant March moon currently illuminates the globe from sunset until almost dawn; y read more »
Be Bold, or Be Bowled Over
What should the Democrats do in the next four years? read more »
Rosy View of the Happy Warrior Who Shaped Modern New York
Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith , by Robert A. Slayton. read more »
State's Political Power Gives Way to Show Biz
PHILADELPHIA-The last time Republicans gathered in this city, they nominated a New Yorker with a mus read more »
Go, McCain! Win, You Big Galumph!
I thought I was so sophisticated that I would never fall for a candidate just because his image on t read more »
The Making of F.D.R., 1932: A Rollicking New York Tale
Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz read more »
The First First Lady, Vol. 2 (and a Handbook for Hillary?)
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2, 1933-1938 , by Blanche Wiesen Cook. read more »
