The Age of Roosevelt Frank S Meyer

FRANK S. MEYER

As far as the United States is concerned, “the revolution of our time” will have to be adjudged to a very large degree in terms of the meaning of the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This is not because he was an ideologue in the sense that Lenin or Sun Yat-sen or Mussolini was. The pragmatic cast of American thought has long been such that it was not to be expected that the American protagonist of fundamental political and social change would be the prophet of a rigid system of ideas.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

FRANK S. MEYER

As far as the United States is concerned, “the revolution of our time” will have to be adjudged to a very large degree in terms of the meaning of the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This is not because he was an ideologue in the sense that Lenin or Sun Yat-sen or Mussolini was. The pragmatic cast of American thought has long been such that it was not to be expected that the American protagonist of fundamental political and social change would be the prophet of a rigid system of ideas.