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Author: Robert Shogan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1566638313
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Looks at the relationship Franklin D. Roosevelt had with a variety of influential Jews and examines their actions and inactions regarding the Jewish Holocaust in Euorpe during World War II.

Author: Charles Godfrey
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Robert Shogan
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 1566639093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Franklin Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews. FDR's promise of economic and social justice was consonant with the mainstays of Jewish culture and with the ethos of the Old Testament and the prophets. And of course these themes were especially resonant during the desperate days of the Great Depression. The Jews who so deeply admired Roosevelt made up the richest, most influential Jewish community in the world, leaders in government, commerce, and the arts. Yet by the time Franklin Roosevelt died in office, six million European Jews had been murdered by the Nazis while neither FDR nor American Jews lifted much more than a finger to help them. How did the president, the nation he led, and American Jewry allow this to happen? There is no simple answer, but Robert Shogan seeks a partial explanation by examining the behavior of a handful of Jews, so close to Roosevelt and supposedly so influential that they could be considered "the president's Jews." Most prestigious was Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis. Next was Felix Frankfurter, Harvard law professor and later Supreme Court justice. Sam Rosenman, FDR's chief speechwriter from the time he was governor of New York. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau was an old Dutchess County neighbor of Roosevelt's. Benjamin V. Cohen crafted the major financial reforms of the early New Deal. Their actions, and often inaction, illuminate the strengths and limits of interest-group politics, the system invented by FDR that dominated American politics for the remainder of the century. Taken broadly, the response of the president's Jews to the Nazi threat illustrates with heartbreaking intensity the dilemma of politics—the conflict between conscience and self-interest, between principle and expediency. With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Author: Edward L. Spears
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258813574
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Edward Spears
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Allison Gilbert
Publisher: Bonus Books, Inc.
ISBN: 9781566251808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Tells what it was like for TV and radio journalists to report the terrifying story of their lives.

Author: Thomas Oliphant
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312385668
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Bestselling author, syndicated political columnist, and PBS commentator Oliphant explains how some of the smartest, most experienced, and politically savvy people in Washington ran the Bush administration into the ground.

Author: Sir Edward Spears
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Cynthia Roberts
Publisher:
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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Author: Andrew Brink
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465317627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Invading Paradise: Esopus Settlers at War with Natives, 1659, 1663 reopens and redirects debate about causes of the two Esopus Wars in what are now Kingston and Hurley, New York. Historical studies are found inadequate to explain the conflict and its genocidal outcome. If causality is ever to be reliably decided, the principal actors in this colonial drama need study. Records of aboriginals are understandably scant, while those of settlers are full enough to give impressions of their motivations and attitudes to the frontier. This study is the first to introduce as individuals the main European immigrants involved in the wars. Were they prepared for what confronted them upon acquiring native agricultural lands? Readers are invited to consider exactly what happened to bring on violence.