FDR: Traitor to His Class? (1 of 10)

H. W. Brands, presidential historian and award winning author of a forthcoming biography of Franklin Roosevelt, speaks to a Grand Rapids audience about FDR's life and times.

The event was organized and co-hosted by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.

H. W. Brands is professor of history at the University of Texas in Austin. He is author of more than twenty books, including "TR: The Last Romantic" (1997), "The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin" (2000), "Woodrow Wilson" (2003), and "Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times" (2005). His latest work, "Traitor to His Class: The Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt," is forthcoming on election day 2008.

His writing has received critical and popular acclaim; "The First American" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller. His essays and reviews have appeared in newspapers and journals all over the country. He is a regular guest on radio and television, and has participated in several historical documentary films.

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[SocialistCatgirl]

@michaelpshipley1

It seems you'd have found it preferable to sit there with your thumb up your ass while the Nazis and the Japanese Empire steamrolled the rest of the planet. Those 500,000 men died saving the world from Fascism.

When would it have been our problem? When the Japanese started drafting invasion plans? It was already happening. When Hitler conquered the last of Europe? He was knocking on London's door.

FDR may or may not have been a monster, but you're a coward for sure.

[michaelpshipley1]

Brands is biased. He loves FDR. Of course this is why the MSM love him.

FDR was no hero. FDR put Americans through 10 years of hell with his voodoo economics meddling and then, as if that wasn't enough pain, plunged them into a murderous world war by intentionally provoking Japan. WW2 killed 500k of our people and 60m others making FDR one of histories greatest monsters along with Wilson and Lincoln.

google - "FDR, Pearl Harbor and the U.N"