Folsom is a professor of history at Hillsdale College and senior historian at the Foundation for Economic Education. Buckley, Jr.-charges into the fray with the zeal of free market evangelism. Both sides, however, agree that a political agenda which sputtered to an end 70 years ago has considerable relevance to the world of today.īurton Folsom, Jr.'s New Deal or Raw Deal-introduced by Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journaleditorial board, and blurbed by George Gilder, Walter Williams, and the late William F. Conservatives retort that the New Deal was a crashing failure. Obama and the people around him appear to have given serious study to Roosevelt's presidency and hope to profit from its example. Editorial cartoonists have already depicted President Obama sporting a jaunty FDR-style cigarette holder. (I am at work on my own FDR biography, grappling with the same issues that emerge in the books discussed here.) Since Roosevelt's death in April 1945, liberal Democrats have hoped for his reincarnation, only to be disappointed to one extent or another by successors from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.Īs we face an uncertain economic future, policy wonks argue the relevance of FDR's New Deal and politicians strive to emulate his charisma. Only Abraham Lincoln has rivaled him as a biographical subject equally attractive to scholars and popularizers. No American president save perhaps George Washington so thoroughly imprinted his personality on his own era. Brandsĭead and gone for 64 years, Franklin Roosevelt remains vividly among us in spirit at a time of financial collapse and widespread fears of another Great Depression. Folsom, Jr.Īnd Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by H.W. A review of New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, by Burton W.
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