When Franklin Roosevelt Asked Joe Kennedy to Drop His Pants
Seventy-five years after the American isolationists was defeated by Franklin Roosevelt, their ideas are being quietly and carefully promoted again by libertarian Republicans like Rand Paul. In this extract from his new book, The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists and the Road to World War II, Nicholas Wapshott explains the dilemma the president faced as theā¦
Interesting how they fit Joe Kennedy into the recently concluded series, Boardwalk Empire.