Person: Franklin D. Roosevelt

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

comment-analysis

J Bradford DeLong: How technology has corrupted discourse

Print was democratising in enabling mass communication, but the transition from TV to the internet has made the public vulnerable to manipulation, says J Bradford DeLong

comment-analysis

Donald Trump in the UK: a state visit offered in haste and regretted at leisure

business

Khrushchev not the only world leader to put his foot in it

Coping with terror - A balanced response to threats

comment-analysis

Paranoia and the paranormal inside the US embassy

world

First swing state victory to Obama

Economic concerns give Obama poll lead

Barack Obama regained a slight lead over John McCain today as the battered US economy intruded on an American presidential election more than any since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Thu, 18 Sep, 2008

Conrad Black's racketeering trial to begin

Former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black’s racketeering and fraud trial is getting under way in the US.

Wed, 14 Mar, 2007

Black's lawyers ask for information to be withheld

Former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black’s lawyers are asking a judge to bar from his trial testimony that he used money belonging to the Hollinger International media empire to buy dinner for former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, refurbish a Rolls Royce and pay for his wife’s jogging suit.

Thu, 01 Feb, 2007

President Branagh

Belfast-born Kenneth Branagh, renowned for playing most of Shakespere's historical characters, as well as Dublin-born explorer Ernest Shackleton, has been signed to portray United States 'New Deal' President, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Warm Springs

Wed, 17 Nov, 2004