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"If you believe America desperately needs a great surge of democracy in the face of fierce opposition from reactionary and corporate forces, then remembering and reviving the spirit of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died 69 years ago this week, is in order.
In January 1941, FDRs State of the Union address made it clear that a fight was inevitable, a fight to preserve, protect and defend four essential freedoms: freedom from fear and want and freedom of speech and religion.
This week, Bill speaks with historian Harvey J. Kaye, author of the new book, The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great, about how FDRs speech was a rallying cry to build the kind of progressive society that Roosevelt hoped for but did not live to see at wars end.
Kaye says the president was able to mobilize Americans who created the strongest and most prosperous country in human history. How did they do it? By working toward the Four Freedoms and making America freer, more equal and more democratic.
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