Source: The Daily Economy
by Marcus M Witcher
“David Beito argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a self-serving politician who cared very little for the civil liberties of Americans. In FDR: A New Political Life, Beito challenges historians who explain away Roosevelt’s horrid record on civil rights as politically strategic (in the case of black Americans) or as an exception (in the case of Japanese internment). Instead, Beito contends that FDR’s glib view of civil liberties was core to his worldview.” (01/27/26)