Timely book: "Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of FDR"

[brentspeak]

Pro-FDR biography, written by H.W. Brands, to be released on Nov. 4 by Doubleday.

If ever we need a new FDR, it's now.

http://www.amazon.com/Traitor-His-Class-Privileged-Presidency/dp/0385519583/ref=sr_1_1/104-2529732-6301568?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223169673&sr=8-1

[Bicoastal]

1. Careful...

...I hear this guy owned a LOT of houses.

:evilgrin:

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Not a very pro-name for the book, however.

[brentspeak]

3. "Traitor to his class" was what FDR's wealthy enemies called him

but it was then taken up something as a badge-of-honor by his supporters.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. I'm talking about the radical part.

Radical today is not necessarily a good thing in many Americans' eyes.

[brentspeak]

6. Ah, you're right.

We live in a mainstream media-brainwashed society, and anything geared to go against the grain of corporate interests is automatically considered "communist."

:banghead:

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Speaking of going against corporate interests ...

... here are two alternative links to booksellers that don't support the GOP, as Amazon.com does (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/12/22/notes122204.DTL):

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Traitor-to-His-Class/H-W-Brands/e/9780385519588/?itm=1">Traitor at Barnes and Noble

Traitor at Powell's

Please consider these companies for your purchases, instead of Amazon.com.

[Captain Hilts]

8. And as a badge of honor by the Roosevelts as well. nt

[salguine]

5. I didn't care much for Brands' Andrew Jackson biography...I thought it

glossed over—or even winked at—Jackson's more assholish traits (and he had many).

[Captain Hilts]

7. Interesting...

FDR: This should make for amusing reading!
ER: I don't think I could bear to read it. People just don't 'get' the New Deal at all...