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BOOK REVIEW

‘Plots Against the President’ by Sally Denton

By Kate Tuttle

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  January 18, 2012

Sally Denton’s “The Plots Against the President’’ details in a brisk, cogent narrative what Roosevelt faced after he won election against Herbert Hoover in 1932. As with Obama, the president-elect seemed to infuriate many on the right, whose criticisms often contradicted one another. Roosevelt was: Socialist? Communist? Fascist? His enemies painted him as either an intellectual lightweight, incapable of addressing the nation’s financial emergency, or an evil mastermind, a traitor to his class, a tool of foreign interests.

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