THE AGE OF' ROOSEVELTVol. III: THE POLITICS OF UPKEAVAL (749 pp.)Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Houghton Mifflin ($6.95).
"There's one issue in this campaign," Franklin Roosevelt told Adviser Raymond Moley before the 1936 election. "It's myself, and people must be either for me or against me."
The issue the voters decided then has since become more complex for the historian and biographer. Liberal Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 42, is unequivocally for F.D.R.; his problem is to thread the maze of pose, purpose and paradox that was F.D.R. The Roosevelt enigma dominates The Politics of Upheaval as...
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