Bernie's Brooklyn
Hamm, Theodore Although Bernie Sanders often invokes FDR and the New Deal, and mentions growing up in Brooklyn, he doesn't fully explain the connection between the two. Bernie's Brooklyn brings to life the politics and culture of the New Deal's capital city. In addition to FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia were the era's leading political figures, meanwhile, Jackie Robinson, Arthur Miller, and Woody Guthrie made mid-century Brooklyn the capital ...