Amity Schlaes describes the almost schizophrenic way in which our 32nd president governed the nation for the first eight of his twelve long years in office

FDR, BHO and the Audacity of Arrogance

By Doug Patton
Monday, February 8, 2010

Barack Obama loves to be compared to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln he definitely is not, but the FDR analogy is apt. In her superb book about the Great Depression, “The Forgotten Man,â€