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Upstairs at the Roosevelts
Curtis Roosevelt knew what it was like to live with a president. His grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the time Curtis, with his sister, Eleanor, and recently divorced mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, moved into his grandparents' new home-the White House-Curtis played, learned, slept, ate, and lived in one of the most famous buildings in the world with one of its most famous residents.Curtis Roosevelt offers anecdotes and revelations about the lives of the president and First Lady and the many colorful personalities in this presidential family. From Eleanor's shocking role in the remarriage of Curtis's mother to visits from naughty cousins and trips to the \"Home Farm,\"Upstairs at the Roosevelts'provides an intimate perspective on the dynamics of one of America's most famous families and those who visited, were friends, and sometimes even enemies.
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The Fall of the House of Roosevelt
In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by \"brains trust\" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.
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Too Close to the Sun
FDR's grandson describes his strange and wondrous coming-of-age in the Roosevelt White Houseand the perils of a public childhood.
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Chicago Tribune Dahleen Glanton column
If there is a single incident that ignited the spirit of a fledgling civil rights movement, it was Emmett Till's mutilated body lying in an open casket in a South Side mortuary. The world would also see what Jim Crow had done to her only child when Jet magazine and the Chicago Defender published pictures of the open casket. [...]Mobley realized something back then that was not as obvious as it is today. [...]when it came to her son's legacy, she gave, and gave and gave until her own death in 2003. Since he was slain in 1955, Emmett Till's story has been shaped by the lie that Bryant told. While standing around outside a corner store with his cousins, Till started bragging that he had a white girlfriend back in Chicago. [...]went inside to buy two cents worth of bubble gum and on the way out, he turned to the woman and said, \"Bye, baby.\" Days later, Till's mutilated body was found in the Tallahatchie River with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck. [...]Mobley made sure her son would be remembered as a martyr. dglanton@chicagotribune.com Credit: Chicago Tribune
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The Fall of the House of Roosevelt
In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by \"brains trust\" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.
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