Amity Schlaes joins President Graham Walker and author David T. Beito on Independent Conversations

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New Episode of Independent Conversations

Featuring David T. Beito’s new book, The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance
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In this episode of Independent Conversations, hosted by Graham Walker, historians Amity Shlaes and David Beito discuss FDR's policies of Japanese internment, spying on Americans, and violations of free speech. Together, they reveal a troubling portrait of FDR—one much different from the standard orthodoxy found in today’s historical studies. FDR’s legacy enjoys near-universal acclaim—but this video unveils the dark side of his legacy.
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“This book is an excellent antidote to Roosevelt amnesia…. What David shows through this stunning book is this: we have this assumption, because of our amnesia, that there was no social welfare network at all before the New Deal brought social security. But David shows in this book the network of little and larger community groups—mutual aid, societies, clubs, religious groups—that, to a much larger extent than we ever imagined, took care of Americans. What David also shows is that the New Deal crowded out these little groups. Think of Tocqueville’s America, where the community got together…. David is the maestro of curtailing Roosevelt amnesia.”
—Amity Schlaes, writer, columnist, and author of Great Society: A New History and The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
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About the Author

David T. Beito ([link removed]) is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama. He received his PhD in history at the University of Wisconsin and is the author of T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, and Civil Rights Pioneer (with Linda Royster Beito) and From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967. He is also co-editor of The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society and the forthcoming Rose Lane Says: Thoughts on Liberty and Equality, 1942-1945.

His honors include awards for best biography from the Independent Book Publishers Association (the largest organization of its kind) and for best film screenplay by the Alabama Writers’ Conclave. The College Board and Advanced Placement Program has rated his US history course as one of the top twenty examples of “best practices” for a single year.
Praise for The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights

“This book is not mere history; it is an exposé. You won't know which is more shocking: the lengths to which FDR and New Dealers like Senators (and future Supreme Court justices) Hugo Black and Sherman Minton went to suppress freedom of speech, privacy, and civil rights; or the degree to which these efforts have been concealed by pro-FDR and New Deal propagandists. While the repressive measures taken by FDR and his New Dealers against their political opponents resemble tactics favored by progressives today, Beito shows that the ‘good old days’ were in some respects even worse. But he also usefully reminds us that resistance to these measures was bipartisan. This is a story that all Americans should know—especially anyone who is headed to college or law school. I will be strongly recommending it to the students in my class on constitutional rights and liberties.”
—Randy E. Barnett, Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center; faculty director, Georgetown Center for the Constitution

“All historians who have written about Franklin Roosevelt need to read David Beito’s book and, in almost all cases, revise what they said. The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights illuminates Roosevelt’s desire for power and his efforts to punish those who tried to thwart him.”
—Burt Folsom, professor of history emeritus, Hillsdale College; author of New Deal or Raw Deal?

“For all his accomplishments, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had little tolerance for critics and not much respect for the Bill of Rights. David T. Beito’s useful survey of the partially unknown dark side of the New Deal reveals the surprising variety of repressive measures that FDR and his supporters employed—not always successfully—to quash those who opposed his administration. It’s a sobering story that reminds us of how precarious our civil liberties have always been.”
—Ellen Schrecker, professor emerita, Yeshiva University; author of Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America

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