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A conversation with Jon Meacham of "Newsweek" about the friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, chronicled in his book "Franklin and Winston: An International Portrayal of an Epic Friendship".
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robertg 01/21/2011 03:37 PM Report
I disagee with writersblock25's comment about the "timeliness" of this book. 2003 was hardly 1939-41. 9/11 was only superficially like Pearl Harbor (Al Qaeda is not a state with a huge military). Iraq does not compare to WWII. That Americans tend to limit their historical memory to WWII and the Cold War distorts our ability to analyze the problems of the present. It was, as Doris Kearns Goodwin put it, no ordinary time. Bringing a mentality appropriate to the world crisis of the 1930s to our time has been disastrous; and it distorts history, totally undermining people's abilities to imagine the singularity of a world in which liberal democracy was truly an endangered species.
writersblock25 12/05/2010 04:13 PM Report
Very timely conversation; what is really neat about the relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt is that it really was one between equals. That two seemingly different groups of people, i.e., the Americans and their British counterparts, can find something in common and which each can rightly take pride in is something that is unfortunately rare in global history.