100 Days: Obama vs FDR
Jonathan Alter, author of "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope," tells Stephen Colbert how President Obama's first 100 days compare to Roosevelt's. Full interview here.
I'm trying to read what Obama's reading. I'm reading Financial Shock by Mark Zandi, and The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, by Jonathan Alter.
David Gregory is moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He is a regular contributor to the Today show.
I just read Jonathan Alter's book The Defining Moment while on vacation in Jamaica. It is a fascinating account of FDR's personal growth and rise to power-climaxing with his inauguration and first 100 days in office. I learned something ...
Chris Wallace is the anchor of Fox News Sunday. He also contributes to the Fox News Channel's political and election news coverage and is based in Washington, D.C.
While most of the rest of the world is focused on the economy, I'm intensely interested in what happens in Obama World on education. Currently, a big fight is underway between what Rep. George Miller calls "disrupters" and "incrementalis...
Jonathan Alter is a columnist for Newsweek and a contributing correspondent for NBC News. He is the author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. Alter is also an originator and author of Newsweek's Conventional Wisdom Watch, which uses up, down and sideways arrows to measure and lampoon the news.
Paul Begala on What Obama's Reading
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
The president-elect has been reading a life of Franklin Roosevelt and appears to be taking to heart history's lessons on how to fix the Depression.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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