Franklin Roosevelt

<p>What does history tell us about presidents who have tried to push the limits of the system?</p>

<p>Charles Lindbergh and the isolationists of American First opposed Lend Lease and Roosevelt’s attempts to prepare for possible war in Europe.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Did the President, as he claimed, lose a battle but win a war in his attempt to pack the Supreme Court? Historical perspective suggests another answer</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In a little-known novel President Wilson’s private adviser depicted a benevolent American dictator</span> </p>

<p>To what extent did greatness inhere in the man, and to what degree was it a product of the situation?</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The cantankerous Californian’s utterly candid opinions, over thirty years, of the Presidents he knew, the senators with whom he served, and the (to him) alarming changes in the America he loved</span> </span></p>

<p>Roosevelt, like Lincoln and Wilson, died fighting for his ideals. </p>

<p><span class="deck"> In this final installment from our series on General Joseph W. Stilwell, Barbara W. Tuchman recounts the story of the old soldier’s finest hour</span> </p>

<p>One of FDR's closest aides remembers "the Boss" and a lifetime in politics.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned, that we always call her ‘Granny’ “her mother said. Cousin Franklin felt otherwise</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Vodka at breakfast was only one of the minor problems when Russians entertained Americans</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> FOR SEVEN DECADES OUR EBULLIENT COUSIN INSTRUCTED US ON EVERYTHING: THE BOERS, PROHIBITION, HITLER, CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S FEET, AND THE COMMON CAUSE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> WHAT POLIOMYELITIS MEANT TO A POLITICAL CAREER</span> </p>

<p>“My God! What are you doing here? You’re supposed to be dead!” the Admiral told Lanikai's skipper when she finally sailed into port</p>

<p><span class="deck"> HOW AND WHY THE UNITED STATES GOT INVOLVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Besides being a bigot, a fop, and a thief, the British governor Lord Cornbury, had some peculiar fetishes</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> LBJ AND VIETNAM</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Remembering Samuel Eliot Morrison</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> What has befallen “the greatest peacetime achievement of twentieth-century America”s since the New Deal</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Regulatory Agencies</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">New Light on a Much-Loved Myth</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> to Joseph P. Lash for Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941: The Partnership That Saved the West</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The American Experience With Foreign Aid</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How Americans Met the First Great Gasoline Crisis—Nearly Forty Years Ago</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">On a warm Florida evening in 1933 a madman with a pistol and a personality profile now all too familiar—“unskilled, unfriendly, unmoneyed, and unwell”—came within inches of altering the course of American history in one of its most critical moments</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> In founding Groton, Endicott Peabody was sure that muscular Christianity would protect<br />
boys from the perils of loaferism</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> “GENERAL,” F.D.R. DEMANDED, “WHEN ARE THESE AIR MAIL KILLINGS GOING TO STOP?”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Conjectural or speculative history can be a silly game, as in “What if the Roman legions had machine guns?” But this historian argues that to enlarge our knowledge and understanding it sometimes makes very good sense to ask …</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">and plans a counterattack</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Secret recordings made in the Oval Office of the President in the autumn of 1940</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> An Interview With Archibald MacLeish</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fifty years after FDR first took office, a British statesman and historian evaluates the President’s role in the twentieth century’s most important partnership</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fifty years ago this March, Roosevelt took the oath of office and inaugurated this century’s most profound national changes. One who was there recalls the President’s unique blend of ebullience and toughness.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">An extraordinary World War I naval operation is recounted by the commander of a decaying coastal steamer crammed with a terrifying new explosive</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a shy millionaire’s peculiar genius transformed his “country place” into an unparalleled showcase of American furnishings</span><br />
A HERITAGE PRESERVED </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> This century’s most powerful Secretary of State talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the Foreign Service, the role of the CIA, the rights of journalists, the contrast between meddlers and statesmen—and about the continuing struggle for a coherent foreign policy</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">How the novelty item of 1920 became the world-straddling colossus of 1940</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The early years of our republic produced dozens of great leaders. A historian explains how men like Adams and Jefferson were selected for public office, and tells why the machinery that raised them became obsolete.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For millions of women, consciousness raising didn’t start in the 1960s. It started when they helped win World War II.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Banking as we’ve known it for centuries is dead, and we don’t really know the consequences of what is taking its place. A historical overview.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Have historians underestimated the importance of Roosevelt’s 24-year struggle with the disease that made him a paraplegic?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In a conflict that saw saturation-bombing, Auschwitz, and the atom bomb, poison gas was never used in the field. What prevented it?</span></p>