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This event has been canceled at the author’s request due to an illness.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was contemplating retirement when war broke out in Europe and he was forced to decide whether to seek a third term, both to lead the American mobilization and preserve the advances of the New Deal. In a discussion of his new book, Roosevelt’s Second Act, Richard Moe examines Roosevelt’s duality: the bold, moral statesman who set lofty and principled goals, and the arrogant, manipulative politician in pursuit of them. Moe was chief of staff to Vice President Walter Mondale and served on President Jimmy Carter’s senior staff. This presentation is part of the Hail to the Chiefs series on the American Presidency co-presented by the Kansas City Public Library and the Truman Library Institute. The series is made possible by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Legacy Fund grants. The series is co-sponsored by KCUR’s Up to Date.
Hail to the Chiefs - Fall 2013 All programs begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Truman Forum, Plaza Branch 4801 Main St. Dwight Eisenhower & Richard Nixon Jeffrey Frank, author of Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage Thursday, September 12, 2013 - RSVP here Woodrow Wilson A. Scott Berg, author of Wilson Thursday, October 3, 2013 - RSVP here Franklin Delano Roosevelt Richard Moe, author of Roosevelt’s Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War Thursday, November 7, 2013 - RSVP here Warren G. Harding Phillip Payne, author of Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding’s Scandalous Legacy Thursday, November 21, 2013 - RSVP here
This event is co-sponsored by: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Legacy Fund, Truman Library Institute, KCUR Up to Date