Liars (40 page)

“increased WPA expenditures more than three thousand percent”
Robert P. Murphy,
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2009), pp. 142–43.

“ ‘a mere subsistence diet' ”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), p. 49.

“ ‘the depression would be cured' ”
Jim Powell,
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
(New York: Crown, 2003), p. 117.

“FDR be given control over the currency”
Robert P. Murphy,
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2009), p. 115.

“FDR could set the price himself”
Jim Powell,
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
(New York: Crown, 2003), pp. 71–72.

“the ‘court-packing' scheme”
“Roosevelt Announces ‘Court Packing' Plan,”
This Day in History
(blog),
History.com
, February 5, 2010,
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-announces-court-packing-plan
.

“modern conditions demanded action”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat 9: On ‘Court Packing' (March 9, 1937),” The Miller Center, accessed May 26, 2016,
http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/speech-3309
.

“shift in public opinion against FDR”
Larry DeWitt, The United States Social Security Agency, “The 1937 Supreme Court Rulings on the Social Security Act,” ssa.gov, accessed May 26, 2016,
https://www.ssa.gov/history/court.html
.

“shaping decisions for decades to come”
John G. Roberts, Jr., “Remarks of the Chief Justice: Symposium on Judicial Independence,” (remarks, University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law,
March 21, 2003), SupremeCourt.gov,
http://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/speeches/sp_03-21-03.html
.

“restricted all ‘partisan' broadcasts”
Thomas West, “The Liberal Assault on Freedom of Speech,”
Imprimis
33, no. 1 (January 2004),
http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-liberal-assault-on-freedom-of-speech/
.

“dramatically increased unemployment”
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “The New Deal Debunked (Again),” Mises Institute, September 27, 2004,
https://mises.org/library/new-deal-debunked-again
.

“to fourteen million from less than three million”
“Franklin D. Roosevelt: The American Franchise,” The Miller Center, University of Virginia, accessed May 26, 2016,
http://millercenter.org/president/biography/fdroosevelt-the-american-franchise
.

“most of them loyal FDR Democrats”
“Franklin D. Roosevelt: Campaigns and Elections,” The Miller Center, University of Virginia, accessed May 26, 2016,
http://millercenter.org/president/biography/fdroosevelt-campaigns-and-elections
.

“to expand and create new jobs”
Jim Powell,
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
(New York: Crown, 2003), pp. 106–7.

“actually to prevent frauds”
Jim Powell,
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
(New York: Crown, 2003), pp. 109–10.

“but paid more for them”
Jim Powell,
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
(New York: Crown, 2003), pp. 110–11.

“during the 1932 presidential race”
William J. Bennett,
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume 2)
, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2006),
https://ronloneysbooks.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/america-the-last-best-hope-volume-2-by-william-j-bennett.pdf
.

“eighty-two hundred pages by the end of it”
Jason Russell, “Look at How Many Pages Are in the Federal Tax Code,”
The Washington Examiner
, April 5, 2015,
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/look-at-how-many-pages-are-in-the-federal-tax-code/article/2563032
.

“annual unemployment rate averaged 18.6 percent”
Robert P. Murphy,
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2009), pp. 99–100.

“did not return back to 1929 levels until 1941”
Robert P. Murphy,
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2009), pp. 110–11.

“Business was paralyzed as a result”
Robert Higgs, “Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and Why Prosperity Resumed After the War,”
The Independent Review
1, no. 4, Spring 1997,
https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_01_4_higgs.pdf
.

“An estimated four million workers lost their jobs”
David B. Woolner, “Repeating Our Mistakes: The ‘Roosevelt Recession' and the Danger of Austerity,” The Roosevelt Institute, July 7, 2010,
http://rooseveltinstitute.org/repeating-our-mistakes-roosevelt-recession-and-danger-austerity/
.

“ ‘to make a Hell of earth' ”
C. S. Lewis,
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology
, ed., Walter Hooper (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1970).

“ ‘And an enormous debt to boot' ”
Burton W. Folsom,
New Deal Or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
, (New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), p. 144.

“the thing to get him there”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), p. 281.

“ ‘the downfall of New York in towers of flames' ”
Eike Frenzel, “Operation Pastorius: Hitler's Unfulfilled Dream of a New York in Flames,”
Der Spiegel
, September 16, 2010,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/operation-pastorius-hitler-s-unfulfilled-dream-of-a-new-york-in-flames-a-716753-2.html
.

“ ‘including our own' ”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address at the Annual Dinner of White House Correspondents' Association,” (speech, Washington,
D.C., March 15, 1941), The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16089
.

“quantity of fabrics used in dresses”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 119.

“which procured raw materials”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), p. 304.

“spent $1.2 billion during the war”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company,1948), pp. 304–6.

“the rubber from Haiti cost $546 per pound”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 162.

“ ‘It all reminds me of my homeland' ”
Anne Applebaum, “Gulag: Understanding the Magnitude of What Happened,” The Heritage Foundation, October 16, 2003,
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/gulag-understanding-the-magnitude-of-what-happened
.

“very understanding with people”
Henry A. Wallace, Soviet Asia Mission (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946), p. 82.

“Wallace's welcoming committee”
Vadim J. Birstein, “Three Days in ‘Auschwitz Without Gas Chambers': Henry A. Wallace's Visit to Magadan in 1944,” The Wilson Center, April 30, 2012,
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/three-days-auschwitz-without-gas-chambers-henry-wallaces-visit-to-magadan-1944
.

“ ‘were razed in a single night' ”
Elinor Lipper,
Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps
(Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951).

“ ‘hundreds of thousands of the damned' ”
Elinor Lipper,
Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps
(Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951).

“Thirty-five BEW Reds”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), pp. 306–9

“take action to break up strikes”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 121.

“mass shortages of basic goods”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 140.

“thirteen million man-days of labor lost”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 159.

“illegal black-market transactions”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 166.

“in the run-up to the 1944 election”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), pp. 322–26.

“Roosevelt was often suppressed”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), p. 103.

“ ‘Taxes to beat the Axis' ”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), pp. 189–90.

“even ‘political friends' ”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 212.

“and critical journalists”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), pp. 211–13.

“on behalf of actual opponents”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 216.

“consisted of six hundred thousand noncitizens”
Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom,
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 226–29.

“held disdain for ‘inferior' peoples”
Greg Robinson,
By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).

“Japanese immigrants were inassimilable”
Rafael Medoff. “The Truth About FDR and the Jews,” The Louis D. Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law, June 7, 2013,
http://brandeiscenter.com/blog/the-truth-about-fdr-and-the-jews/
.

“praised the ‘Teutonic race' ”
John M. Cooper, Jr.,
Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace
(Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008), p. 231.

“the spirit of Fascism here at home”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “State of the Union Message to Congress,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1944), The Heritage Foundation,
http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/fdrs-second-bill-of-rights
.

“ ‘a mere prelude to revolution' ”
Raymond Moley,
How to Keep Our Liberty: A Program for Political Action
(New York: Knopf, 1952), pp. 82–83,
https://mises.org/library/how-keep-our-liberty
.

“ ‘utterly broken, submissive, and repentant' ”
Edmund Morris,
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
(New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001), p. 456.

“new city a federal priority”
“Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt Glossary: Arthurdale,” The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University, accessed May 26, 2016,
https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/arthurdale.cfm
.

“managed by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads”
C. J. Maloney,
Back to the Land: Arthurdale, FDR's New Deal, and the Costs of Economic Planning
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011).