The Great Divide

The Great Divide M. STANTON EVANS should govern. An egghead has been described as an intellectual who thinks he should run things. This is an elitist position rooted in the conviction that power and wisdom can be united only in the person of an academician – who seemingly is wise because he knows a lot of things. Ultimately this, of course, would result in the disappearance of the Academy and scholarship in general.

A third questionable interpretation of the practical function of the scholar of the “brain trust,” and general liaison man, Moley was FDR’s Sorensen, Schlesinger and O’Brien rolled into one. With his insider’s knowledge of what Roosevelt was doing, moreover, he combines historian’s exactitude and patient skill and journalist’s eye for practical detail. The First New Deal, in consequence, is both a primary source of the Roosevelt era and a mature evaluation of the deeper currents which worked beneath its turbulent surface.

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The Great Divide M. STANTON EVANS should govern. An egghead has been described as an intellectual who thinks he should run things. This is an elitist position rooted in the conviction that power and wisdom can be united only in the person of an academician – who seemingly is wise because he knows a lot of things. Ultimately this, of course, would result in the disappearance of the Academy and scholarship in general.

A third questionable interpretation of the practical function of the scholar of the “brain trust,” and general liaison man, Moley was FDR’s Sorensen, Schlesinger and O’Brien rolled into one. With his insider’s knowledge of what Roosevelt was doing, moreover, he combines historian’s exactitude and patient skill and journalist’s eye for practical detail. The First New Deal, in consequence, is both a primary source of the Roosevelt era and a mature evaluation of the deeper currents which worked beneath its turbulent surface.