As the Great Depression devastated banks, farms, and factories, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal introduced sweeping federal ...

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, excerpt from his 1938 State of ...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted Americans to join the fight against the axis of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan in 1940, without actually entering the war, he called on Americans to ...

Overall, False Dawn is a disciplined, evidence-heavy challenge to the New Deal’s most self-flattering myth: that bold ...