David T. Beito
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And I think FDR's policies in many ways delayed recovery.
Typically, depressions were over within two to three years.
But FDR is sort of fumbling around.
And as I said, we still have double digit unemployment in 1940.
European countries, other countries in the world generally recover a lot faster than we do.
And a lot of that, I think, is because he's doing these weird experiments like the National Recovery Administration.
and the triple a which are disasters economically and in many ways the new deal retards a recovery that should have happened much earlier if american history is any guy so i don't buy the argument that he saved the system because i don't think the system was headed towards a revolution
All right.
Well, I taught at the University of Alabama for...
30 years, and I'm now a professor emeritus there.
And I've written on a lot of different topics.
I wrote about the history of the welfare state.
I wrote about taxpayers' revolts.
I wrote about civil rights history.
And a few years ago, I did a book about a topic that's always been of interest to me, civil liberties during the New Deal period.
The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights was the title of the book.
Out of that, I got a call offering me in advance to write a full biography of FDR.
And of course, I jumped at the opportunity.
This has always been a fascinating period to me.
FDR has always been, you know, he's always loomed large.
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