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Originally Posted by d-ray657
I just ordered Volumes I and II of the Age of Roosevelt series by Arthur Schlesinger. I had picked up Volume III at a thrift store a few years ago and found it fascinating.
Regards,
D-Ray
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I did read parts of volume I in graduate school. Schlesinger gets criticized for being too positive about FDR (and the Kennedys)...but his vignettes about the people who constituted the brain trust of the New Deal are priceless. I also read his biography of Robert F. Kennedy.
Which reminds me that I need to pick up William Manchester's The Glory And The Dream, a collection of essays about 20th Century American history. I hope it is still at the Salvation Army tomorrow.