A conversation with the historian who studied a file on Albert Einstein, compiled by J. Edgar Hoover in his own secret war against the world’s most famous scientist. And the editors of a collection of letters Americans wrote to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in response to his Fireside Chats, and his invitation that they tell him their troubles
Fred Jerome
Fred Jerome discusses The Einstein File, his new history on J. Edgar Hoover’s secret war against the world’s most famous scientist.
Lawrence W. and Cornelia R. Levine
Lawrence W. and Cornelia R. Levine discuss their collection of letters Americans wrote to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in response to his Fireside Chats and his invitation that they tell him their troubles. The book is called The People and the President: America's Conversation with FDR.
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