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Article: Nothing to Fear but Roosevelt.(Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America)(Book review)
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- The American Conservative
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- February 9, 2009
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[Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America, Adam Cohen, Penguin, 352 pages]
In Nothing to Fear, New York Times assistant editor Adam Cohen has given us a passionate, even eloquent history of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Hundred Days and the launch of the New Deal. He captures the colorful personalities and legislative battles that transformed America into a welfare state.
Cohen presents the traditional New Deal heroic narrative, following the example of James MacGregor Burns, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Frank Freidel, Kenneth S. Davis, Ted Morgan, and hundreds of other biographers and political historians. Like ...