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• Remembering the House F.D.R. Built (Well, His Mother Did)

  By James Barron Nov. 29, 2018   The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin stood in a place she had described in her most recent book. “This was where he crawled,” she said. “He” was…

• What Do the Democrats Need in 2020?

  by Walter G. Moss Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University and Contributing Editor of HNN. Among his publications are An Age of Progress?Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces,various…

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  Review of Robert Dallek’s “Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life”

  by Walter G. Moss Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University, Contributing Editor of HNN, and author of “An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century…

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  Doris Kearns Goodwin says current events drove her latest book

  Q:The title of your book is Leadership: In Turbulent Times. Is it about today? DKG: Yes, in a very real sense Leadership: In Turbulent Times is about today. Using history as my guide, I…

• Eleanor Roosevelt and the refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

  http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/10/23/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-refugees-of-the-hungarian-revolution-of-1956/

• What Would Eleanor Do? ‘If You Ask Me’ Revisits Roosevelt’s Advice Columns

  “Advice columnist” is not a role that is usually listed under Eleanor Roosevelt’s long list of achievements, but for over 20 years she wrote a popular write-in column, first for Ladies…