On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at 12:00 Noon, I will be hosting my show The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is the Terry Golway, author of Together We Cannot Fail, FDR and the American Presidency in Years of Crisis.
Our subject is the legacy of FDR on his 130th Birthday and the coming 80th anniversary of his election in 1932 and why the giant shadow of the New Deal still affects politics today!” Professor Golway last appeared on The Advocates on January 27, 2010.
Terry Golway is the director of the John Kean Center for American History at Kean University in Union, N.J. A former member of the New York Times Editorial Board and city editor of the New York Observer, he is the author of several books, including:
* “Together We Cannot Fail,” a study of Franklin Roosevelt’s speeches.
* “Fellow Citizens,” the Penguin Book of Inaugural Addresses, co-written with Robert Remini;
* “Let Every Nation Know,” a study of John F. Kennedy’s speeches;
* “Washington’s General,” a biography of Nathanael Greene;
* “So Others Might Live,” a history of the Fire Department of New York;
* “For the Cause of Liberty,” a history of Irish nationalism;
* “Irish Rebel,” a biography of the Irish-American journalist John Devoy.
Golway served as a consultant to the Museum of the City of New York for its 2008 exhibit, “Catholics in New York,” and he edited a book of essays about Catholics in New York published by Fordham University Press. He was awarded his PhD from Rutgers University.
Golway has appeared on several documentaries on PBS and the History Channel. He has been a guest speaker at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Society of the Cincinnati of New England, New York University’s Ireland House, the New College of California, Catholic University of America, and Fordham University’s Bishop Hughes Center for Culture and Religion. He is a frequent contributor to American Heritage, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times.
He recently was interviewed WCBS News 88 by Wayne Cabot on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/12/08/nj-professor-looks-back-on-fdrs-handling-of-pearl-harbor-using-radio/
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