Thursday Bookshelf: The Roosevelts

As companions to Ken Burns’ The Roosevelts  on PBS the following books, all available on Kindle are highly recommended.

 

 

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

 

Theodore Rex

 

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

 

1932 convention book

Happy Days Are Here Again: The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR–and How America Was Changed Forever

 Review

One comment

  1. Ray Hudkins's avatar

    The Bully Pulpit is a great read. Combined with “The PBS documentary by Ken Burns it is scary to see how much the current Congressional mess and corruption of today mirrors 1901 through 1908 (TR’s term in office). We could certainly use a TR in the White House today

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