Showing posts with label Frances Perkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frances Perkins. Show all posts

Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Inner Circle

There's an interesting review by Lizabeth Cohen in the American Prospect. Cohen, chair of the history department at Harvard, reviews

Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America by Adam Cohen, Penguin Press, 372 pages, $29.95
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and his Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey, Doubleday, 458 pages, $35.00
Lizabeth Cohen, "Team of Rivals Redux," The American Prospect, 16 April 2009.