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Canada and the United States

Michael Janeway. The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ. (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 284. $27.50.
Every generation has its best and brightest, and those young liberals who stormed the gates of Washington, D.C. during FDR's New Deal made their mark for positive government unlike any other period in U.S. history to that time. Coming as legal realists and Keynesians, they valued results over process and fit nicely with Roosevelt's own pragmatism. In his well-crafted book, Michael Janeway chronicles and analyzes the actions and personalities over several decades of New Dealers such as Thomas Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, Thurman Arnold, and James Rowe. In addition to the public side of the study, a more private or personal element emerges as the author grapples with the life and legacy of his father, economist and writer Eliot Janeway, who had close affiliation with the other New Dealers. The story is not always pretty.	1
The longer these initially eager and intellectually energetic young men remained in Washington, the harder it became to relinquish power or what had become the shadow of power. Always a wheeler dealer, Corcoran ended his career in the eyes of many as the ultimate "fixer." Fortas, appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson, another of the Rooseveltians, left the bench in disgrace. Douglas suffered from a messy personal life. At the beginning of the 1990s, Clark Clifford, who began in the Truman administration but became one of the group, crashed in an international banking scandal.	. . .

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