“During prosperous times, none of Roosevelt’s up-and-coming lieutenants could have ventured far beyond political suburbia,” as Mr. But the truly weird thing is that they held such eminent positions at all. Special interactives, immersive audio-visual theaters, and rarely seen artifacts bring a New Deal to a New Generation. They were also, in various combinations and to different degrees, messy, wounded human beings. They were cabinet secretaries, though Hopkins is better known for overseeing federal relief and Wallace (who was, unquestionably, a little weird) spent a term as vice president as well. In “Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made,” Derek Leebaert prefers “peculiar outsiders,” but he uses the terms “odd” and “strange” too when referring to his subjects: Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins and Henry Wallace.Īll four were architects of the New Deal and members of Roosevelt’s inner circle.
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Such figures are often weirdos-though perhaps that’s too strong a word. Roosevelt, in full Franklin Delano Roosevelt, byname FDR, (born January 30, 1882, Hyde Park, New York, U.S. In times of upheaval and strife (so goes the theory), unconventional figures have a way of slipping into power. and the Departments of History and Political Science at SUNY New Paltz The Rockefeller Institute of the State University of New York the FDR Library. Students of history may recognize a concept I’ll call the Weirdo Theory of Crisis.
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