In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove outlines five important lessons on leadership from FDR. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the most ...
Business leaders like JP Morgan and Irénée du Pont were accused by a retired major general of plotting to install a fascist dictator Donald Trump’s elaborate plot to overthrow the democratically ...
The United States has never had another leader like Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died 70 years ago this weekend. Serving for 12 years, far longer than any other president, he had such a profound impact ...
The following article is adapted from Rendezvous With Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America Into the War and Into the World, out now from The Penguin Press. Few ...
This article originally appeared in U.S. News & World Report on Feb. 1, 1982. By Lewis J. Lord with Thomas J. Foley It was 100 years ago—on Jan. 30, 1882—that a country gentleman in Hyde Park, N.Y., ...
March of 1933 was a terrifying month for Americans. A quarter of the nation’s workers were unemployed. Farmers and bankers alike suddenly lost their livelihood. Stocks were down 75% from 1929 — and in ...
If you look only at the old newsreels and black-and-white photos, it can be hard to understand the secret of FDR’s success. The paralyzed patrician politico transformed himself into a popular icon by ...
Who’s ready for four-and-a-half hours of HOT and HEAVY presidential action? FDR (now on History Channel) is a three-part biographical documentary – executive produced by Bradley Cooper! – about a man ...
In June 2013 the Department of Justice indicted Edward Snowden, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, for releasing countless classified documents to ...
Josh Zeitz has taught American history and politics at Cambridge University and Princeton University and is the author of Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image. He is ...
If Peter Thiel were to move to, say, Texas or Florida, it is highly unlikely that he would miss California’s taxes.
The Kennedys are back in the headlines today—this time it’s RFK Jr. That three-initial formulation, common to the Kennedy family since the 1960s, has lately appeared in headlines about French ...