Redefining Roosevelt
Johnson, Paul
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...Roosevelt himself is the supreme goody, though he is sometimes sorrowfully presented as having not been goody enough and is rebuked accordingly...
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...The book sometimes reads like a comforting bedtime story for liberal children, with a moral narrative-line and a cast of goodies and baddies...
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...Hence this book is profoundly unhistorical not merely because Davis thinks he knows what was going on in Roosevelt's head but because he imposes on the period ideological notions and standards of Political Correctness from the 1990s, which are anachronistic and distorting when applied to people who lived in the early 1940s...
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...I t has always seemed to me that the most foolish and unnecessary mistake Hitler made during the entire conflict, apart from getting into it in the first place, was to declare war on the United States in December 1941, when he was already engaged in what was quickly becoming an inconclusive struggle with Russia...
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...But it is embedded in a characteristic Davis sentence that is worth quoting to show what kind of book this is.Yet, says Davis, Kaiser was all right and so was Andrew Jackson Higgens, "a fellow seacraft builder...
...Atypical goody is "black Mary McLeod Bethune:' described as "one of the key officials of the National Youth Administration," who campaigned against government departments that "practiced racial discrimination as a matter of policy...
...But I was several times reminded of something: Roosevelt was a lucky politician...
...Peter W. Huber is a lawyer and writer...
...What about the famous Henry J. Kaiser, then, who built all those ships in record time...
...Behind all the baddies was Big Business, whether bankers, whose "inordinate greed" had caused the Great Depression, or the Industrialists, guilty of fascism, anti-Semitism, racism, and a concern for immense profits to be gained by exploiting wartime cost-plus contracts...
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