Newsweek had a great comparison between these two blueblood presidents.
I was a little put off to see that Newsweek’s columnist Jonathon Alter was able to use their space to promote his new book about FDR but the two pages were a good read. Alter’s book maintains what I was told back in highschool forty years ago: that Roosevelt saved both democracy and capitalism.
The article compares how the flexible Roosevelt confronted his crisis and the inflexible Bush confronted his. I appreciated Alter’s insights on how Bush’s kicking alcohol and FDR’s recovering from polio made them very different men.
I’ll have to put his book on the growing list of Presidential bio’s circling my runway.
