Welcome back, and I want to begin with a couple of statements from people about this book.

The book is FDR, A New Political Life.

The author is David Beto.

And this is the first one that's here is from Hillsdale College. It's Burton Fulsom.

He says the book FDR, A New Political Life, is the most illuminating one volume history of FDR ever

written. American historians have come to recognize that Roosevelt's New Deal did not end

the Great Depression, but prolonged it.

David Beto carefully explains why so many FDR programs and power grabs were so counterproductive.

To go from the older FDR histories to David Beto's wonderful new work is to make a historic

leak from the Dark Ages.

Also, another author, David McCallis, says,

when it comes to race and Western influence,

FDR's vision of the world order was muddled by delusional phenomena.

He was not a man of empire or genocide, like his wartime allies, Churchill and Stalin,

but he was a dreadfully old-fashioned Victorian quack,

an amateur phrenologist who believed that repopulating the Pacific Rim

with certain choice cross-breeding would create a better world for all.

David Beto takes us further than his predecessors along the breadcrumb path

into Franklin Roosevelt's thick forested interior.

And again, many wonderful stellar reviews.

And I'm going to say, even though I wasn't able to read the entire book, what I read of it really does match with this.

I'll give you one more.

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