Indeed, he initially advocated a balanced budget, precisely the wrong remedy for a crisis which would ultimately be ended only by the governmental spending of World War II. What Roosevelt could offer ...

FDR was certainly influential. After all, even if economists on the right and left debate whether it was his stimulus policies or World War II rearmament that finally ended depression era ...

Roosevelt during World War II, wrote in his memoires: “The President was fully convinced of the need for another meeting of ‘The Big Three’, for which arrangements had been discussed for ...

Facing one of the greatest challenges in American history—world war—Roosevelt helmed the government during the era just before World War II through the prosecution of the war to final victory in 1945.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country ...

Roosevelt's secretary of labor Sara Georgini ... the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II incarceration David A. Taylor The owners inherited the valuable ...

Goebbels worked to inflame the anger of Germans over their defeat in World ... Roosevelt found the speech so inspiring that he had it printed and airdropped over the European front. The Office of ...

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William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.