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American History

bucolic_frolic

(47,016 posts) Sun May 23, 2021, 04:29 PM May 2021

Smith was a giant in the presidential biographer genre. I read his two biographies of FDR and Eisenhower.

This is a wonderful lecture.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: His Public and Private Lives. Speech by biographer Jean Edward Smith (Original Post) bucolic_frolic May 2021 OP

Excellent lecture. Thanks for posting it. NNadir Jun 2021 #2

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1. FDR was a complicated man with a complicated marriage during a complicated era.

Sun May 23, 2021, 04:36 PM

May 2021

Yet he managed to win a world war, bring the Depression to an end, and died (perhaps ironically) when most of his work was finished.

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2. Excellent lecture. Thanks for posting it.

Sun Jun 20, 2021, 12:45 AM

Jun 2021