| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

FDR and His Enemies. By Albert Fried. (New York: St. Martin's, 1999. x, 261 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-312-22119-3.)

This book focuses on five opponents of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Alfred Smith, Charles Coughlin, Huey Long, John L. Lewis, and Charles Lindbergh. Historians familiar with the politics of the 1930s will find little here that is new. A book like this has the potential to be useful to general readers, but the author's writing style lessens this possibility. Albert Fried repeatedly makes vague references to people and organizations with which a general reader might not be familiar. He expects readers to understand unexplained references to Mark Hanna and Warwick but feels it necessary to inform those same readers that the United States went to war with Germany and Italy, as well as Japan. Numerous obscure words are used for no apparent purpose other than to demonstrate that the author has a large vocabulary—or owns a thesaurus. . . .

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