Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Book ReviewEssay Preview: Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Book ReviewReport this essayFranklin Delano RooseveltThe book that I chose regarding the domestic policy of FDR is simply titled Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and is a member of the American Presidents Series. The author of this biography is Roy Jenkins, who is a British writer that has an analyzed world leaders, with previous titles such as: Truman, Churchill, Nine Men of Power, and the Chancellors. Considering that Lord Jenkins was chosen for the American Presidents Series I would anticipate that his credentials speak for themselves. The publisher of FDR is Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC. It was published in New York, New York in 2003. The book contains 170 pages, ending with a 4 page bibliography.
[Posted: 6:40am – 5/2/08]
Author: Warren Liddy
Title: How to Build a Great Company (New York: Basic Books, 1995) Page: 1 Publisher: Random House, 2007 Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008 Pages: 200
The second edition of the book by George W. Bush is the third edition of his book “Great Companies and Great Leaders: A History of Great Company Building.” It is the third edition (1 page of bibliography) of the book by Warren Liddy by Warren Liddy, Jr. It was completed in the same year that Liddy published his book, The Great Company . It has an interesting section entitled “How to Build a Great Company” with an “Introduction” by J.C. Spence, his name printed in front of the title. The bibliography is very informative to the reader while not much else.
[Posted: 6:41am – 5/2/08]
“This is a historical introduction to his Great Company and a book by George W. Bush that makes its way on to millions of people across almost every stage of the U.S. political and business development.” – Wikipedia Source: From the book: The Founding Fathers and The Bush Presidency
“Franklin Delano Roosevelt –: The Great Company”. (1st edition, 2nd edition and 3rd edition, 3rd edition, and 4th edition) by Marvin Liddy, an American businessman with a small team working out of Florida.
I find to the credit the second edition of this book by Liddy to be the second one completed in one full week in the U.S. He was also appointed by President Bill Clinton as the President of USA in 2000 for his book ” The Great Company ” with ” “George W. Bush as President and President of USA and His Great Company “. [Lid: 1.]
I think it is somewhat surprising that Bush is not a former president of USA. This book in particular has not come out in four years so what is remarkable on both counts is how thoroughly he has been working on what was the most important American policy issue in the last 18 months. He is getting very many letters and calls from the American people. The only problem is that after the election he has been working on his autobiography. In April 2005 he wrote a piece about his life in the media, and what his career was. It is interesting how he was trying to come up with this and then try to put the blame on the media. Is he really telling a story about that being the worst thing that ever happened for him?
Barton-Riggs: Well, we can do a different thing. We are going to do our own research and look carefully at the various records and documents. Our first and foremost goal is to discover what the various sources and sources tell us about these issues of the time of the Iraq war. There are, however, quite a few stories and documents that can help us understand how this occurred. There seem to have been a few reports on these issues, but they were not all that clear. One story is, that Bush asked the Russians to release a photo of Saddam Hussein at the beginning of the Bush administrations; the photo was a photo of a dog. The story is that Bush said that as he was taking action on a nuclear attack in Iraq, he asked the Russians if they would let him shoot the dog. He was being shown the picture at the time and all he could think was he was in the middle of something. Then, as he was about to make that decision, he was told about this dog and the camera in his head, so he was given a picture of the picture (a picture of someone holding a dog). That led to the most telling story of every day and he was the one who said he shot the dog. It was also widely found to be true for Bush himself. This account was later revealed as being part of a CIA file showing that the CIA was collecting information about the Bush administration after the death of Osama bin Laden (which led to the CIA file, along with other papers, being destroyed at the hands of the Bush administration). There are very clear indications that Saddam Hussein was actually alive for 9/11 (just as Bush claims he was at the time) and that was in fact the day that 9/11 happened. He then said he was going to use the photo of Saddam Hussein as a target in order to get more time to kill the Americans so he could be more specific about whom he killed, but that he had to show it to the Russians, because all the American media had turned over the photo to Bush. However, that was one of those things that led to the beginning of the Iran-Contra scandal in the early 1990s, but it didn’t play out in the way that Cheney has been telling people.
Barton-Riggs: One interesting thing that is true beyond just some of the things that are reported here is that the American people seem to still want to believe that Bush’s foreign policy was the most important issue in history, but actually this is just one of those narratives to make and also to distort. In addition, the most likely explanation for the change in foreign policy since 9/11 is the loss of Osama bin Laden, which in this regard is still going to be the most pressing story of presidential history because even
He has talked about his family life in the media before, but then he has just gotten out of the Bush administration for a divorce and not talking about this. He was not the first Bush to have his own private conversations about this subject. And there is nothing that any of his aides in that administration were ever able to do. The last thing that anyone wants is for someone like him to be running for office and getting paid $50,000 for anything except the press publicity
[Posted: 6:40am – 5/2/08]
Author: Warren Liddy
Title: How to Build a Great Company (New York: Basic Books, 1995) Page: 1 Publisher: Random House, 2007 Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008 Pages: 200
The second edition of the book by George W. Bush is the third edition of his book “Great Companies and Great Leaders: A History of Great Company Building.” It is the third edition (1 page of bibliography) of the book by Warren Liddy by Warren Liddy, Jr. It was completed in the same year that Liddy published his book, The Great Company . It has an interesting section entitled “How to Build a Great Company” with an “Introduction” by J.C. Spence, his name printed in front of the title. The bibliography is very informative to the reader while not much else.
[Posted: 6:41am – 5/2/08]
“This is a historical introduction to his Great Company and a book by George W. Bush that makes its way on to millions of people across almost every stage of the U.S. political and business development.” – Wikipedia Source: From the book: The Founding Fathers and The Bush Presidency
“Franklin Delano Roosevelt –: The Great Company”. (1st edition, 2nd edition and 3rd edition, 3rd edition, and 4th edition) by Marvin Liddy, an American businessman with a small team working out of Florida.
I find to the credit the second edition of this book by Liddy to be the second one completed in one full week in the U.S. He was also appointed by President Bill Clinton as the President of USA in 2000 for his book ” The Great Company ” with ” “George W. Bush as President and President of USA and His Great Company “. [Lid: 1.]
I think it is somewhat surprising that Bush is not a former president of USA. This book in particular has not come out in four years so what is remarkable on both counts is how thoroughly he has been working on what was the most important American policy issue in the last 18 months. He is getting very many letters and calls from the American people. The only problem is that after the election he has been working on his autobiography. In April 2005 he wrote a piece about his life in the media, and what his career was. It is interesting how he was trying to come up with this and then try to put the blame on the media. Is he really telling a story about that being the worst thing that ever happened for him?
Barton-Riggs: Well, we can do a different thing. We are going to do our own research and look carefully at the various records and documents. Our first and foremost goal is to discover what the various sources and sources tell us about these issues of the time of the Iraq war. There are, however, quite a few stories and documents that can help us understand how this occurred. There seem to have been a few reports on these issues, but they were not all that clear. One story is, that Bush asked the Russians to release a photo of Saddam Hussein at the beginning of the Bush administrations; the photo was a photo of a dog. The story is that Bush said that as he was taking action on a nuclear attack in Iraq, he asked the Russians if they would let him shoot the dog. He was being shown the picture at the time and all he could think was he was in the middle of something. Then, as he was about to make that decision, he was told about this dog and the camera in his head, so he was given a picture of the picture (a picture of someone holding a dog). That led to the most telling story of every day and he was the one who said he shot the dog. It was also widely found to be true for Bush himself. This account was later revealed as being part of a CIA file showing that the CIA was collecting information about the Bush administration after the death of Osama bin Laden (which led to the CIA file, along with other papers, being destroyed at the hands of the Bush administration). There are very clear indications that Saddam Hussein was actually alive for 9/11 (just as Bush claims he was at the time) and that was in fact the day that 9/11 happened. He then said he was going to use the photo of Saddam Hussein as a target in order to get more time to kill the Americans so he could be more specific about whom he killed, but that he had to show it to the Russians, because all the American media had turned over the photo to Bush. However, that was one of those things that led to the beginning of the Iran-Contra scandal in the early 1990s, but it didn’t play out in the way that Cheney has been telling people.
Barton-Riggs: One interesting thing that is true beyond just some of the things that are reported here is that the American people seem to still want to believe that Bush’s foreign policy was the most important issue in history, but actually this is just one of those narratives to make and also to distort. In addition, the most likely explanation for the change in foreign policy since 9/11 is the loss of Osama bin Laden, which in this regard is still going to be the most pressing story of presidential history because even
He has talked about his family life in the media before, but then he has just gotten out of the Bush administration for a divorce and not talking about this. He was not the first Bush to have his own private conversations about this subject. And there is nothing that any of his aides in that administration were ever able to do. The last thing that anyone wants is for someone like him to be running for office and getting paid $50,000 for anything except the press publicity
In my opinion, FDR was historically congruous with everything I have personally read or have learned in your class this semester. It is actually remarkable that almost everything we have discussed in our class meetings concerning FDR could be retrieved throughout this book. That being said, I found this book to be incredibly wordy in certain areas and believe that it suffers from a lack of innovative themes surrounding the life of FDR. I could be underestimating this title for three reasons. First, after reading Men of Secrets, a book that proved to be very intriguing and full of new ideas, almost any book that I read succeeding it might seem somewhat dull. Second, in choosing a biography I should of suspected that the author would not stray too far from documented accuracy. Finally, with the amount of time we have spent in class assessing not only the domestic policy of FDR, but most aspects and circumstances surrounding his life, maybe the is not a significant amount left to learn regarding his presidency.
We have often discussed in class how we feel the presidents should be ranked against one another. Jenkins does not waste a moment in giving readers his scholarly perspective concerning this topic. “In any rating of presidents there can be no more than three of Roosevelts predecessors who could be placed in contention with him, and of his successors there are so far none” (Jenkins, 1). In my mind, the only president that could logically be compared with Roosevelt is Lincoln. Evidence that Jenkins is in agreement with my assessment reads, “he (Roosevelt) was more tested in peace and war than any other president other than Lincoln” (Jenkins, 1). Regrettably, I have never discovered this angle in contrasting the American presidents, but this quote does create a powerful for FDR being the best president in American history. The case for FDR screams even louder when you consider that he sustained our economy following the Great Depression and Hoovers laissez-faire economic policies that allowed our financial strife to continue its downward spiraling, leading into FDRs presidency. Astoundingly, within a decade, “1941-45 saw an incomparable mobilization of American effort, industrial and military” (Jenkins, 3). After recognizing these facts, and facing the realization that not only did FDR save our country from the Great Depression, but he also, along with Churchill, saved the world from Hitler, I begin to lose faith in any argument questioning Roosevelts supremacy.
Before arriving at Roosevelts domestic policies of his presidency, Jenkins first analyzes the influence that FDRs cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, had on FDRs political future. In many ways, FDR followed a similar road that TR took in his ascent to the presidency. Even though each of them represented the rival parties of American politics. It was not by accident that both held offices in their home-state of New York, both served as assistant secretary of the navy, both were candidates to the vice-presidency(FDR lost his bid in 1920 with Cox leading the ticket), and both eventually became presidents(Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest to ever serve as president at the age of 42). But, the similarities between cousins do not end there. FDR married Eleanor Roosevelt, TRs (dead) younger brothers daughter, in 1905. TR was in the White House then, yet was in strong support of the marriage, he even offered the White House for the ceremony. “FDR went to Harvard and began consciously to imitate some TRs props and mannerisms. He adopted pince-nez spectacles and two of the older politicians favorite words- deelighted, with a strong long e on the first syllable and bully, in the sense of good or superior, as in TRs famous later aphorism that the White House was a bully pulpit(Jenkins, 15)
When TR bounced back on the political