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THE

JOHNT. ROOSEVELT

FLYNN

MYTH

THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY • NEW YORK

JOHN T. FLYNN

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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FOREWORD

vii

BOOK ONE

TRIAL-AND ERROR

I The New Dealer Takes the Deck

2 The Hundred Days

3 The Banking Crisis

4 The New New Deal

5 The Rabbits Go Back in the Hat

6 The Dance of the Crackpots

7 An Enemy Is Welcomed

8 The Ride of the Wild Rabbit

BOOK TWO

CONFUSION

T/ze Coming American Boom

War on the Courts

The Forgotten Depression

Harry the Hop and the Happy Hot Dogs

The Dance of the Philosophers

War Clouds

The Third Term

The Shock Troops of the Third New Deal

Roosevelt Breaks with the Past

Henry Wallace

105

113

128

148

164

*75

182

203

222

Contents

BOOK THREE

BETRAYAL

1 A New Show Of ens

233

2 The White House Goes into Business

235

3 What Manner of Man?

258

4 Toward the Precipice

287

5 The Atlantic Charter

299

6 A Boondoggle/s Dream

303

7 Tfoe Happiest Years of Their Lives

310

8 Tfee Thought Police

321

9 The Great Conferences

331

I o Politics, Disease and History

364

I1 How Germany's Fate Was Settled

379

12 Tfoe Atlantic Charter Is Scrapped

384

13 TTie Final Betrayal

387

14 T/ie President's Death

396

15 TTie Roosevelt Myth

413

REFERENCES

420

BIBLIOGRAPHY

426

INDEX

430

FOREWORD

THIS BOOK IS IN NO SENSE A BIOGRAPHY OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSE-

velt. It is rather a critical account of that episode in American poli-

tics known as the New Deal. As to the President, it is an account of

an image projected upon the popular mind which came to be

known as Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the author's conviction that

this image did not at all correspond to the man himself and that it

is now time to correct the lineaments of this synthetic figure created

by highly intelligent propaganda, aided by mass illusion and finally

enlarged and elaborated out of all reason by the fierce moral and

mental disturbances of the war. The purpose of this book, there-

fore, is to present the Franklin D. Roosevelt of the years 1932 to

1945 in his normal dimensions, reduced in size to agree with reality.

The war played havoc with history-writing after 1940. Not only

did a great curtain of secrecy come down upon performers in the

drama of the war, but their portraits and their actions were pre-

sented to us through the movies, the radio and the press upon a

heroic scale as part of the business of selling the warriors and the

statesmen and the war to the people. Their blunders and their quar-

rels were blotted out of the picture. Only the bright features were

left. The casual citizen saw them as exalted beings moving in glory

across the vast stage of war, uttering eloquent appeals to the nation,

challenging the enemy in flaming words, striding like heroes and

talking like gods.

The moment has come when the costumes, the grease paint, the

falsely colored scenery, the technicolored spotlights and all the other

artifices of make-up should be put aside and, in the interest of truth,

the solid facts about the play and the players revealed to the people.

A whole 20-foot shelf of books has appeared glorifying the charac-

ter and career of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In addition a large number

of men and women who were associated with his administrations

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