Tag: Franklin D. Roosevelt Life & History

• Lathrop Brown, Long After Harvard

  [For this this issue we’re delighted to have Pam Canfield Grossman, Lathrop Brown’s granddaughter, as guest author. – Eds.] Questions about my grandfather Lathrop Brown and his life after Harvard…

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, Republican

  It seems almost impossible, but here it is, clear as day:  F.D. Roosevelt, a member of the Harvard Republican Club!  What could have happened? Have we moved into the realm…

• Not Your Average Summer Vacay

  In the movie “Legally Blonde” actress Reese Witherspoon anounces to her ditzy friends:  “Girls, I’m going to Harvard!” “Like on Vacay?” they scream in reply. “ROAD TRIP!!!!!!” Well, ladies and…

• The Ghost of Lathrop Brown?

  As the Cambridge air has turned cool, we’ve begun to notice that strange things are afoot in the Suite. Haunting melodies of ragtime are floating in the air, and occasionally…

• The World: Its Cities and Peoples

  I’ve commented often in this newsletter about how, occasionally, things just seem to fall into place by themselves, almost as if they were destined to be. Well, it’s happened again,…

• FDR: A Life in Pictures

  The Foundation is DEE-lighted, to borrow a turn from TR, to announce the publication of its new Roosevelt biography, FDR: A Life in Pictures. From the back cover: “Lightweight yet…