The Real Reason for FDR's Popularity

The Real Reason for FDR’s Popularity

Tags: Biographies, Legal System, Media and Culture, U.S. History

10/21/2010 Mark Thornton

What if a president took a different direction and sought popularity by expanding rather than reducing liberty? There is a model here they could follow, but it is not one you have thought of. It is Franklin D. Roosevelt, writes Mark Thornton.

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