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What FDR Can Teach President Obama ... and the Rest of Us

Historians H.W. Brands and Douglas Brinkley discuss lessons from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency.

When Apr 17, 2009
from 11:30 am to 01:30 pm
Where Rice University's Baker Institute
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What FDR Can Teach President Obama ... and the Rest of Us
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Henry William Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History, a professor of government at The University of Texas at Austin and the author of the 2008 book, "A Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." Previously, he taught history at Texas A&M University, was a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University and was an oral historian at The University of Texas School of Law. Brands has written 22 books, co-authored or edited five others, and published dozens of articles and scores of reviews. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, The National Interest, The American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Political Science Quarterly and American History, among others.

Douglas Brinkley is the fellow in history at the Baker Institute and a professor of history at Rice University. Before coming to Rice, Brinkley served as professor of history and director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University. From 1994 to 2005, he was the Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History and director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. He has received honorary doctorates from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Brinkley is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times Book Review and American Heritage, as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. In a recent profile, the Chicago Tribune deemed him “America’s new past master.”

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