"What Cohen (no relation) calls 'the most diverse Cabinet in history' consisted of three Republicans as well as the expected Democrats, representatives from the South and West as well as the Northeast and Midwest, two Catholics, the first woman ever, and by 1934 a Jew. Roosevelt deliberately surrounded himself with advisers expressing conflicting points of view in order to weigh the alternatives before him. Cohen shows us a president, much like Obama, who valued wide-ranging advice but then trusted his own judgment."
In The American Prospect, Lizabeth Cohen reviews Adam Cohen's Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America and Kirstin Downey's The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and his Moral Conscience.
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