RealClear Radio Hour – Not Your Usual Roosevelt and Churchill

8 Nov

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FDR’s Raw Deal

NOV 7, 2015

Burt Folsom, author of New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, chronicles how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s political ambitions and personal agenda doubled the national debt and left the nation mired in economic stagnation and wasteful make-work employment programs, in stark contrast to both his campaign promises and popular myth.

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Churchill: A “Foolish Moth”

NOV 7, 2015

David Lough, author of No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money, paints a vivid portrait of Winston Churchill as a compulsive risk-taker with a taste for extravagance who lived on the brink of insolvency, saved from financial ruin by his brilliance as a writer.

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