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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus remind the 21st Century that the NSDAP was not voted into office: a large and growing majority of the German people did not ever support the Hitlerites at the polls-- before the Reichstag fire ended democracy in the Weimar Republic. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

1945 Berlin

#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus puzzle why Zelensky declares a manpower crisis? Why now? Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/02/ukraine-zelensky-criticises-biden-no-doing-enough/

1930 Crimea

#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the fresh NATO provocations -- and if the Kremlin responds.  Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/30/ukraine-russia-war-live-nato-has-just-5-of-air-defences-to/


1916 Brussels

80TH D-DAY: DOCTOR "WIN THE WAR" AS POTUS 1936: 8/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by  David Pietrusza  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-Sweeps-Nation-Landslide-Triumph/dp/1635767776

Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America’s most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves.


With in-depth examinations of rabble-rousing Democratic US Senator Huey Long and his assassination before he was able to challenge FDR in ’36; powerful, but widely hated, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, who blasted FDR’s “Raw Deal”; wildly popular, radical radio commentator Father Coughlin; the steamrolled passage of Social Security and backlash against it; the era’s racism and anti-Semitism; American Socialism and Communism; and a Supreme Court seemingly bent on dismantling the New Deal altogether, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America.

UNDATED FDR

80TH D-DAY: DOCTOR "WIN THE WAR" AS POTUS 1936: 7/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by  David Pietrusza  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-Sweeps-Nation-Landslide-Triumph/dp/1635767776

Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America’s most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves.


With in-depth examinations of rabble-rousing Democratic US Senator Huey Long and his assassination before he was able to challenge FDR in ’36; powerful, but widely hated, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, who blasted FDR’s “Raw Deal”; wildly popular, radical radio commentator Father Coughlin; the steamrolled passage of Social Security and backlash against it; the era’s racism and anti-Semitism; American Socialism and Communism; and a Supreme Court seemingly bent on dismantling the New Deal altogether, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America.

1944 ELECTION VICTORY

80TH D-DAY: DOCTOR "WIN THE WAR" AS POTUS 1936: 6/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by  David Pietrusza  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-Sweeps-Nation-Landslide-Triumph/dp/1635767776

Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America’s most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves.


With in-depth examinations of rabble-rousing Democratic US Senator Huey Long and his assassination before he was able to challenge FDR in ’36; powerful, but widely hated, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, who blasted FDR’s “Raw Deal”; wildly popular, radical radio commentator Father Coughlin; the steamrolled passage of Social Security and backlash against it; the era’s racism and anti-Semitism; American Socialism and Communism; and a Supreme Court seemingly bent on dismantling the New Deal altogether, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America.

1944