Erin ’s Reviews > Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt > Status Update

The blatant racist politics of the South alienated voters elsewhere, putting Southern presidential hopefuls in an impossible bind.

Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were far less enamored of the capitalists status quo. Each believed that capitalism was running away with democracy, and that millions of Americans were being strangled by corporate greed.

People of Theodore Roosevelt's class didn't usually enter politics. Politics was seen as grubby, low and rough and its practitioners were not those with whom gentlemen associated.

For many months Franklin disguised his growing attachment to Eleanor. Being related made the deception easier

Eleanor was a Roosevelt before she married Franklin. Her father was Elliott Roosevelt, brother of Theodore.

Since the 1850s the Democrats had elected precisely 1 president, Grover Cleveland.

For protection Eleanor's grandmother had 3 heavy locks on Eleanor's door. A girlfriend asked Eleanor why "To keep my uncles out " she replied

Franklin had the self confidence of one who expected the world to treat him well.

Franklin rarely read books other than dime mysteries.

"I will not say that all Democrats are horse thieves, but it would seem all horse thieves are Democrats."