There is perhaps one common point between Donald Trump and FDR, but it is a sad and frightening one: The Anchorage meeting between Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia bore a striking ...

FDR: A New Political Life, by David T. Beito, Open Universe, 400 pages, $29.99 Treachery was the consistent theme of Roosevelt's political life. During his 1932 presidential campaign, FDR signaled ...

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If there were any doubts that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the greatest scoundrels of American political history, David Beito's new biography should settle the issue. Beito—whose ...