Bad deal: how FDR made life worse for African Americans.(Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown)(FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression)(Book Review)

Reason | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown, by Kevin J. McMahon, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 298 pages, $20

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, by Jim Powell, New York: Crown Forum, 352 pages, $27.50

FRANKLIN DELANO Roosevelt ranks near or at the very top of almost every standard list of America's greatest presidents. But there is a substantial part of the American public for whom the legendary four-termer did little: African Americans. Despite the determined efforts of his ...

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