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Book Review: The Roosevelt Myth

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The Roosevelt Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition by John T. Flynn (San Francisco: Fox and Wilkes, 1998); 437pages; $24.95. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, there followed a vast outpouring of despair and sadness from one end of the United States to the other. For more than 12 years, FDR had occupied the White House, having won an unprecedented four elections to the U.S. presidency. There was a young generation of Americans who had grown up knowing no other man in the highest political office of the land, since his first inauguration in March 1933. Tens of millions of Americans had huddled next to their radios during his first term of office, listening to his famous "fireside chats" as he explained and justified the radical domestic policies that constituted his New Deal for the United States. As war clouds began to form over Europe in the late 1930s, he told the American people that he would keep America ...

Book Review: The Roosevelt Myth

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The Roosevelt Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition by John T. Flynn (San Francisco: Fox and Wilkes, 1998); 437pages; $24.95. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, there followed a vast outpouring of despair and sadness from one end of the United States to the other. For more than 12 years, FDR had occupied the White House, having won an unprecedented four elections to the U.S. presidency. There was a young generation of Americans who had grown up knowing no other man in the highest political office of the land, since his first inauguration in March 1933. Tens of millions of Americans had huddled next to their radios during his first term of office, listening to his famous "fireside chats" as he explained and justified the radical ...

Book Review: Freedom in Chains

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Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen by James Bovard (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999); 326 pages; $26.95. Are you better off than you were 25 years ago? Listening to critics from the left, the impression would be created that Americans are experiencing a falling standard of living and facing immanent mass unemployment and a growing inequality in income and opportunity among various groups in the society. W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm, in their recent book, Myths of Rich and Poor: Why We're Better Off than We Think, (Basic Books, 1999), marshal the statistical data to demonstrate that, by practically every measure, Americans at the end of the 20th century are far better off than they were both a half-century and a quarter-century ago. For example, they show that while, by standard measurements, average real wages appear to have declined in recent years, in fact real standards of living for the ...