4162 Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, by James MacGregor Burns (read 17 May 2006) I have for years intended to read a FDR biography and this month I finally read Burns' two-volume one. This volume, covering the years to 1940, has many good chapters even though my reading in the first part of May covered much of the same ground. Burns is frequently non-praising of FDR though he rightly has much good to say of him. The accounts of the 1932, 1936, and 1940 elections are so much fun to read. FDR's second term was really devastated by the Court-packing fight--a fight so unnecessary as it turned out. Much of this book was sheer enjoyment to read. Political history is so much fun to read one can get so caught up in it. ( )

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