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The New Dealers' War F.D.R. and the War within World War II By Thomas Fleming
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Dramatic new debunking of FDR, the war president
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Fleming, the author of Liberty! and many other works of history which have sold several million copies, comes through with a decisive critique of FDR during the war years. Although The New Dealers' War doesn't offer the bombastic pleasures of John T. Flynn's The Roosevel Myth, it does makes a powerful moral case against FDR.
Fleming stresses FDR's dishonesty. He lied to everybody about all kinds of things. He blamed his political setbacks on the rich. He stabbed many friends in the back. He tried a number of schemes, including touting forged documents, with the idea of inflaming American opinion and getting the country into the European war.
Fleming tells how the Roosevelt administration violated civil liberties. Freedom of speech was suppressed. Private property was seized. Income tax withholding was introduced (following the precedent set by Social Security withholding taxes). On October 3, 1942, FDR issued an executive order calling for a 100% tax on income above $25,000. His goal was "equality of sacrifice."
There's a dramatic story about how, in April 1944, the might of the U.S. government was brought to bear on Montgomery Ward president Sewell Avery after he refused to go along with a government-ordered labor settlement. Fleming writes,
"Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones . . . summoned a platoon of soldiers from a nearby army base and asked Attorney General Francis Biddle to fly to Chicago in an army plane to take charge of the situation. . . . 'To hell with the government,' Avery snarled. Biddle . . . claimed he saw Avery's defiance endangering the entire war effort. . . . A young officer ordered two of his men to link hands and create a seat to carry Avery out of the building. As he departed, Avery glared at Biddle, and roared: 'You, you New Dealer!' Downstairs, a photographer snapped a picture of the slight silver-haired Avery as he was carried onto the street by the steel-helmeted soldiers. Hands folded across his stomach, Avery looked almost relaxed, but still defiant. The picture made the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country, and a typhoon of abuse descended on the White House."
Most damning about FDR during the war years was his blindness to Stalin's crimes, the suppression of opposing views and our alliance with Stalin. Fleming piles it on thicker than I recall seeing it piled on before, and I've been reading books about this subject for a long time. A great read!
"Tom Fleming has done it again! He has taken another heroic era of American history--this time th era of the Second World War--and put it under his high-powered microscope. The result is a stunning, and sure to be controversial, reexamination of Franklin D. Roosevelt's stewardship of the nation's affairs in that epoch. Readers--even those still faihful to the historic New Dealer litany--will be forced to rethink their understanding of this pivotal chapter in America's story." --Henry F. Graff, Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University
"In a new century, it is time for new judgement, and here assuredly is one, about President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II--an era when, Thomas Fleming believes, FDR's reputation far exceeded his accomplishment. This is not the Roosevelt we have read about for so long." --Robert Ferrell, author of The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1944-1945
"If Thomas Fleming's historical novels bristle with sharp, hard facts, his non-fiction is peopled with vivid, unforgettable characters. The New Dealers' War shows Fleming at his best: sound judgment, fine novelistic sensibilities and impeccable craftsmanship." --Mark C. Carnes, Professor of History, Columbia University
"This is powerful, stimulating reading, starting with a fresh look at still controversial questions about Pearl Harbor and ending with new perspectives of the tangled postwar beginnings of the Cold War." --Charles Bracelen Flood, author of Hitler: The Path to Power
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