Roosevelts

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2019
  

  In our tumultuous times, history offers hope

  by Katrina vanden Heuvel

  In his book, my father ceaselessly reminds us that hard work and idealism can create change.

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• 12-4-16
  

  The Roosevelts’ Ruthless Control of Their Image

  by William J. Mann

  The shocking story of how TR and FDR covered up affairs and blackballed members of their family in the service of their political ambitions.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-7-14
  

  What Happened to the Roosevelts?

  by Rob Goodman

  What the Bushes and the Clintons can learn from a fallen political dynasty.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  9-12-14
  

  Ken Burns is in a race to slow us down

  “We are in a media culture where we are buried in information but we know nothing."

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• SOURCE: Vulture
  9-19-14
  

  Ken Burns and the Myth of Theodore Roosevelt

  "Though exciting to watch, Burns’s cinematic homage muddles the history."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9-17-14
  

  What Ken Burns Doesn't Understand about the Roosevelts

  In realizing the “personal” Roosevelts, something of the “public” is lost.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  9-14-14
  

  Ken Burns’s ‘Roosevelts’ Fine But Flawed

  by Harvey J. Kaye

  Arguably America’s most influential historian, Burns fashions a fascinating documentary from the lives of Teddy, Franklin, and Eleanor. But his story has grave gaps.