Article: FDR reconsidered.(New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America)(Book review)

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 ...

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