FDR and the Press By Graham White VG HC Democracy Media Relations 1st Amendment

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We also include instructions on our packages not to bend or fold, and specify the contents are a paper item.Shipping: We typically ship via USPS Media Mail or First Class Large Envelope. If neither of those options are available, we use USPS ground. Turnaround: Do you hate it when sellers print shipping labels to mark an order as shipped, but then it sits around for a week? So do we! We don’t print shipping labels until your product is ready to ship. We ship most orders within one business day but never more than two. —— Inside cover "A good bit has been written previously about Roosevelt and the press, but never with such thoroughness and perception.... Overall, White's (book] is sound, innovative, and quite readable. He has written a significant statement about Roosevelt which will evoke comparisons with other recent presidents." -Frank Freidel, Harvard University in the literature of his administrations Historians have documented the skill and virtuosity that he displayed in his handling and exploitation of the press. Graham J. White discovers the well of Roosevelt's excessive ardor: an intractable politi- cal philosophy that pitted him against a fierce (though imaginary) enemy, the written press. White challenges and disproves Roosevelt's contention that the press was unusually severe and slanted in its treatment of the Roosevelt years. His oniginal work traces FDR's hostile assessment of the press to his own Jeffersonian political philosophy: an ideology that ordained him a champion of the people, whose task it was to pre-serve American democracy against the recurnng attempts by Hamiltonian minorities (newspaper publishers and captive reporters） to wrest control of their destiny from the masses. —— Preface Most of those who have attempted to analyze Franklin Roosevelt have felt obliged to emphasize the complexities and ambiguities of his char-acter. They have seen in their subject a confusing mixture of puzzling contradictions: a Hudson River aristocrat turned democrat; a pros-perous, landed conservative who practiced radicalism; a sworn upholder of the Constitution who struck at the Supreme Court; and their conclusions have been, in so many words, that Franklin Roosevelt was an enigma, an endless riddle, or, in any event, a man whom it is quite impossible to understand in any relatively simple or straightforward manner. Nor could these conclusions be considered surprising. Who, it might fairly be asked, having examined Franklin Roosevelt's political record, could throw a mantle of consistency over his aims and actions, or, by discovering some hidden order in that chaos of improvisation and experimentation called the New Deal, see clearly into the mind of its chief architect? Even if Franklin Roosevelt was not ideologically homeless, an adroit but completely rudderless improviser, should he not be seen essentially as a pragmatist who, taking his main cues from changing circumstances and opportunities, merely raked together some scraps of ideology to bolster his often bewilderingly inconsistent ac-tions? A substantial body of critical opinion would suggest that he should.' Yet there are grounds for suspecting that the emphasis on the elements of paradox and discontinuity in Franklin Roosevelt may have been carried far enough. To begin with an obvious question, if Roosevelt was, as is so frequently argued, without clear direction, conscious of his in-consistencies, deeply divided, as at least one writer has suggested… ——

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