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How Franklin Roosevelt Lied America Into War, by William Henry Chamberlin, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, 1953
"One is left, therefore, with the inescapable conclusion that the promises to 'keep America out of foreign wars' were a deliberate hoax on the American people, perpetrated for the purpose of insuring Roosevelt's re-election and thereby enabling him to proceed with his plan of gradually edging the United States into war." |
The New Deal and Roosevelt's Seizure of Gold: A Legacy of Theft and Inflation, Part 1, by William L. Anderson, Freedom Daily, Aug 2006
"... the New Deal as we know it would not have been possible without the issuance of Executive Order 6102 in 1933. With Roosevelt's signature, gold as legal money disappeared in the United States ... Historians generally pass by EO 6102, but without it Roosevelt's economic programs never would have gained traction." |
The New Deal and Roosevelt's Seizure of Gold: A Legacy of Theft and Inflation, Part 2, by William L. Anderson, Freedom Daily, Sep 2006
Related Topic: Gold Standard
"... early in his presidency, on April 5, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, which ordered people to turn in their gold to the government at payment of $20.67 per ounce. ... Furthermore, the president's order nullified all private contracts that called for payment in gold ..." |
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The Nightmare of the New Deal, Part 1, by George C. Leef, Freedom Daily, Dec 2007
Review of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
"Shlaes isn't the first writer to try to set the historical record straight and undermine the fawning adulation usually given to Roosevelt, but her book may succeed more than all the others put together because it's (a) nonacademic and (b) published by a major house. Except for die-hard statists, this book will at least cause readers to smirk next time they read that Franklin Roosevelt was one of our 'great' presidents." |
The Nightmare of the New Deal, Part 2, by George C. Leef, Freedom Daily, Jan 2008
Review of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
"Shlaes recounts a radio debate Willkie had with one of Roosevelt's lawyers, Robert Jackson, later named to the Supreme Court. Willkie had come to see that, as Shlaes writes, 'while Roosevelt might call himself a liberal, the inexorable New Deal emphasis on the group over the individual was not liberal in the classic sense.'" |
Three New Deals: Why the Nazis and Fascists Loved FDR, by David Gordon, Mises.org Daily Article, 22 Sep 2006
Review of Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
"Critics of Roosevelt's New Deal often liken it to fascism. Roosevelt's numerous defenders dismiss this charge as reactionary propaganda; but as Wolfgang Schivelbusch makes clear, it is perfectly true. Moreover, it was recognized to be true during the 1930s, by the New Deal's supporters as well as its opponents." |
A Tribute to John T. Flynn, by Adam Young, 31 Jan 2003
Related Topics: John T. Flynn
"Flynn was a critic of Roosevelt's New Deal ... viewing the entire program as a copy of Mussolini's Fascist State corporatism. ... Unlike the so-called New Right, Flynn remained an anti-interventionist during the Cold War, opposing the Korean war and the creeping Vietnam quagmire, and predicted that the Soviet leviathan would collapse on its own ..." |
Democracy Versus Liberty [PDF], by James Bovard, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Aug 2006
Related Topics: Democracy, Bill of Rights, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson
"Roosevelt perennially invoked freedom as a pretext to increase government power. His promises of freedom for the entire world distracted attention from how his administration was subjugating Americans. Partly because Americans in the 1930s and early 1940s were less politically astute than those of the Founding era, FDR's bait and switch worked like a charm ..." |
Killing in the Name of Democracy, by James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy, 27 Jan 2006
Related Topics: Democracy, Guatemala, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson
Excerpt from the "Messianic Democracy" chapter
"Franklin Roosevelt painted World War II as a crusade for democracy — hailing Stalin as a partner in liberation. ... Roosevelt praised Soviet Russia as one of the 'freedom-loving Nations' ... The fact that the Soviet regime had been the most oppressive government in the world in the 1930s was irrelevant, as far as FDR was concerned." |
No More Great Presidents, by Robert Higgs, Mises.org Daily Article, 19 Feb 2007
Related Topics: United States Presidents, Grover Cleveland, War, George Washington
"... under FDR the Constitution suffered damage that none of his successors has repaired and most have made worse. Certainly since 1932--and, one might well argue, since 1896--no president has been true to his oath of office. ... Franklin Roosevelt created the 'imperial presidency,' and we have been the worse for it ever since." |
The American Heritage of "Isolationism", by Gregory Bresiger, Freedom Daily, May 2006
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson
"Franklin Roosevelt, at the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, said the United States must be neutral. One year later, campaigning for a third term, he pledged that American boys wouldn't be sent to Europe to fight in World War II. This came while he was secretly scheming to help the British stay in the war." |
The Federal Ripoff, by George C. Leef, Freedom Daily, Nov 2006
Related Topics: Business, Eminent Domain Protections, Government
Review of The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money by Timothy P. Carney
"Franklin Roosevelt is famous for his attacks on businessmen as 'economic royalists,' but many big business leaders were quite content to be thrown into his briar patch of governmental controls because they saw them as beneficial. Beneficial, that is, for their firms in the short run." |
The Federal War on Gold, Part 3, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, Oct 2006
Related Topics: Gold Standard
"In issuing his executive order, Roosevelt relied on the Trading with the Enemy Act ... What the Congress had done is delegate its power to make certain laws to the president, essentially vesting Roosevelt with dictatorial powers. ... Congress amended the Trading with the Enemy Act to vest the president with the power to declare 'national emergencies' ..." |
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The Roosevelt Myth: A Critical Account of the New Deal and Its Creator, by John T. Flynn, 1948
Electronic text available at RooseveltMyth.com, copyright 1997 Popsvox Publishing. |
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