[.ca] The Roosevelt Myth (ISBN 0930073282)

can I give it less than 1 star:
Oh my goodness. I had the impression that the book was going to attempt to present an objective view of FDR but I was wrong. It was nothing more than a hatchet job on one of the greatest presidents to serve and lead this country. Don't waste your money on this piece of garbage.

Shocking Garbage:
I was shocked when I scanned this book. It's so full of phony gargage. Roosevelt was a practical politician, and his reforms were sensible and very moderate by today's standards. He saved capitalism while other worlds fell into radical ideologies, like communism. This book comes from the radical, aristocratic, laissez-faire, extremist position that government should not promote free competition in the economy. Instead, a powerful ruling elite should monopolize the economy. That position states that giving everyone who works hard for an entire lifetime basic, minimal Social Security, which FDR did, would bankrupt the government. It didn't. Instead, average Americans got a sliver of the pie for hard work. I suggest you read a book by a Roosevelt scholar and not a political hack writing bad information like this.

Not Reputable:
Be aware that this book was written by a political hack who seeks to discredit one of the three best American presidents for totally unrelated reasons. This book is so far from reality that it simply is ridiculous to even begin to comment on it. If you really want to learn about FDR, read something by a scholar who has devoted decades to the study of the FDR administration. You will then learn the good and the not so good TRUTH. This book is not that.

Franklin Exposed:
No, not as Sumner Welles was, though that story is included here, but here is FDR as he was: a cheap-jack, red-faced, serpent-smiled machine politician. He would stroke, promise, betray, and forget politcal debts unlike any man in this dirty business ever thought to do. He promised, for example, a free Poland, and shunted such things to the side, for political expedience called. Lincoln violated the law, Theodore Roosevelt and Taft slapped down the free market, LBJ destroyed free association, Carter (temporarily) crushed America's respect in the world, Clinton gave everyone a reason to laugh at the executive--but Franklin made relativism an art form. This book shows why America would be better off without a president.

Flynn risked everything for the truth.:
My wife dragged me out to Danker Furniture in Fairfax to buy a couch back in 1988. I knew we had little money, and so I let her do the talking. The store had prop books on the shelves so I picked up the Roosevelt Myth, sat in an armchair and could't stop reading for the next forty minutes. Finally I told the salesman, I don't want a couch but I'll give you a sawbuck for this book. He let me have it gratis. It was a copy that had been annotated in pencil on the back cover. Flynn spared no effort to detail how thoroughly dishonest FDR was in every aspect of his life. He used to play up his infantile paralysis for public sympathy. He even abused his office to pursue his hobby: collecting stamps! By 1944 his mental health was so bad that he zoned out during a radio address. Of course the fawning craven toadies of the press dutifully covered everything up, but not Flynn. He saw a picture with an admiral's sleeve showing. He asked for an uncropped photo and contacted the admiral for the truth while the rest of the scribblers dished out wartime propaganda. Seem familiar? It should, Clinton cheated -- probably still does -- at golf and the press has not changed a bit. Roosevelt made sure that Flynn was punished for writing this courageous work, because he lost his position as editor of Colliers magazine as a result. Most so-called reporters haven't the guts to try a work of this kind today.