Part One of our mini-biography of everyone’s favorite wheelchair pilot, FDR. His family background (opium traders), his rise, his polio, his affairs, his reforms, his ballsy attitude, his assassination attempt, his concentration camps and how incredibly fucked America was when he was sworn in. In 1933, the US was in dire straits. Three years into the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and a third-rate military. When he died in 1945, it was the world’s leading economic and military superpower.
FDR has always been a personal hero of mine, warts and wheelchair and all. He is in my opinion only second to Lincoln as far as best president, but perhaps that’s simply due to the time he was born in to and he could have been THE great.
“The Roosevelts: An Intimate History” did a GREAT biography mini-series on FDR, cousin Elle, and uncle Teddy. It did go into the affairs and other short-comings, but in the end, I will say that he was a good man who saved his country and the world.
Now that the hero-gushing is over, let’s listen to Ray and Cam’s treatment of the dude: ALA Churchill and Stalin style!
Please keep up the great podcast guys, I think it may be my favorite one that you have both been at: more than WWII, Napoleon, Alexander, Augustus, or even Lil Caesar himself and all the under-rated pizzas that he has to offer.
Thanks AK2. Just tried to check out your website a but got an error? Sounds interesting