Roosevelt's New Deal campaign was not limited to soaring speeches. Every campaign also needs villains whose misdeeds frustrate the will of the people. Today, they are the "1 percent." ...

Similarly, she recalls how Joseph Kennedy, the first chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, regaled FDR at his Potomac estate with fresh New England seafood and penny-ante poker, ...

Roosevelt’s strongest competition came from Texan John Garner, Speaker of the House and personal choice of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, and Alfred E. Smith, the former New York ...

Donald Ritchie talked about his book [Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932], published by University Press of Kansas. In his book Mr. Ritchie recounted the presidential election of 1932 ...

In 1944, the president’s doctors warned that he would not survive another term. “That will be all, Dr. Lahey,” Roosevelt dismissed a Boston heart specialist in early July, shortly before ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.

The right blames the short-lived recession in a year straddling 1937 and 1938 on FDR's New Deal policies. But that was four years into Roosevelt's term — four years marked by spectacular ...

Synergy’s political allure can even befuddle voters, as it befuddled those who supported Roosevelt, and massively so, in his 1936 reelection campaign. But synergy falls short when it comes to ...

Roosevelt’s first 100 days were really the disaster-response period of his presidency, the moment when the new chief executive grabbed the fire hose and started putting out the flames that had ...

In this June 6, 1933, file photo, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown signing a New Deal initiative. Standing, from left are: Rep. Theodore A. Peyser, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and Sen ...

Will Joe Biden be the new FDR? Is he up for a big, bold 21st century New Deal to help confront a crisis that, as he has said, “eclipses what FDR faced?”. After all, we face not just economic ...