FDR Suite

  • Christmas Revised: December 1900

    When the streets of the city are whitened with snow And windows coated with rime, When the tree is awaiting its wonderful fruit, And the bells are beginning to chime,…

  • Lathrop Brown and FDR: Epilogue

    Long before I had ever heard of the FDR Suite, I’d visited an absolutely spectacular spot on California’s coast. Located along Highway 1, just south of Big Sur, the Julia…

  • Lathrop Brown and FDR: Endgame

    (This is the fifth and final installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz. For the introduction to these articles, click HERE.) The Lathrop…

  • Lathrop Brown and FDR: 1905-1920

    (This is the fourth installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz. For the introduction to these articles, click HERE.) The Lathrop Brown Interviews:…

  • Lathrop Brown, Political Dilettante

    In this the third in a series of articles on FDR’s longtime friend and Harvard roommate, Lathrop Brown, we take a break from the Pare Lorentz interviews to focus a…

  • Lathrop Brown and FDR: The Harvard Years

    (This is the second installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz. For the introduction to these articles, click HERE.) The Lathrop Brown Interviews:…