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Article: FDR reconsidered.(New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America)(Book review)
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- January 26, 2009
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New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged American By Burton Folsom Jr. (Threshold, 336pp., $27)
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SOME seem to believe Barack Obama is the second coming of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Newspaper columns are rife with Obama-FDR comparisons, few of them skeptical. A recent Paul Krugman column was titled "Franklin Delano Obama?" and Time pictured Obama on its cover as the New Deal icon--cigarette and all--to accompany an article urging a New New Deal. Disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer returned from political exile to proclaim that "President-elect Barack Obama will soon face the extraordinary task of saving ...