https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Above is an old thread with a long booklet called “The Revolution Was” written in 1938 about FDR and the New Deal.
I first read it when Obama was in office and so much of what this guy writes about that FDR was doing fit Obama to a “T”. Even some of Obama’s phrases were reworkings of FDR.
I found it to be an interesting and entertaining read, and very eye-opening.
When I was a teen I couldn’t understand why my dad (WWII vet) hated FDR so much. In my twenties I learned why to some degree. But this booklet explains a lot!
From the recent book review:
“...while Roosevelt himself appears in cameos as an opportunist looking to see what works.”
From 1938:
“Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern....
...Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another... The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.
The end held constantly in view was power.”