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

Roosevelt granted that justice might favor the anti lynching law but politics didn't.

The Lend- Lease program made America the armory of the antifacist alliance.

Radar was a new technology, introduced in Hawaii only months before the attacks.

Congress was leery of saving European Jewry as they were of challenging fascism.

Franklin Roosevelt had done little for African Americans.

Hitler gave Chamberlain his word that all he wanted was the Sudetenland.

"Ordinary people spend their incomes from necessity; the rich sit on the money depriving it of its multiplier value."

Millions in Germany's soup lines saw Communism as appealing. Germany's business and propertied classes leaned right. In the choice between Communists and the Nazis they chose Nazism.

The New Deal is socialism in poor disguise.

For decades the Supreme Court was in frequent flux. The Court was established with 6 members in 1789; it shrank to 5 in 1801; it expanded to 7 in 1807; it grew to 9 in 1837 and 10 in 1863; it fell back to 7 in 1866; it returned to 9 in 1869.