Nothing to Fear

Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America by Adam Cohen


Excellent read. Cohen does a good job of combining time-line history with illuminating character studies of the participants in the greatest program/legislative achivements in our history.


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We lose sight, in today's world, of a President who can *preside*.  Cohen's book shows us how FDR took socialists and corporate fascists into his cabinet, along with a few moderates and political hacks, and had this diverse group hammer out the programs of the New Deal  All factions had a "say' and all factions had input to the legislative output of the Hundred Days accomplishments. One difference that Cohen does not deal with, is that Roosevelt's cabinet wanted the best for the nation, not for party.