| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. By Conrad Black. (New York: Public Affairs, 2003. xii, 1,280 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-58648-184-3.)

Conrad Black has written the liveliest and most comprehensive popular biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt to date. True, Black, the Canadian-born media executive and member of the British House of Lords, breaks no new ground, factually or analytically. His main conclusions—FDR was a great president, the New Deal saved capitalism from the capitalists, Roosevelt's war leadership saved the world—are conventional, even mundane. His is very much an old-fashioned life and times, with FDR as all-purpose hero. But Black's way of arriving at his judgments is hardly conventional. He has intelligently mined a multitude of published primary and secondary works. Even when he covers familiar ground, his provocative, often idiosyncratic, assessments of individuals and events command attention.

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