On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World
On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World by
James Srodes ISBN: 9781619021655
Published by Counterpoint LLC on 2013
Genres: History,
United States,
General Pages: 325
Len's Summary: Meeting informally in 1916 at various houses on Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, a group of young Progressives including the Roosevelts, Walter Lippman, Felix Frankfurter Allen, John Foster and Eleanor Dulles, and Herbert Hoover began to formulate the ideas which led to the New Deal and policies for winning World War II.