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Economic stimulus experts includes History professor
Faculty members are available to provide analysis of economic recovery plan
Posted: February 27, 2009
What Obama Can Learn from FDR
H.W. Brands
The Raymond Dickson, Alton C. Allen and Dillon Anderson Centennial Professor of History
College of Liberal Arts
512-475-7238
hwbrands@mail.utexas.edu
Brands draws parallels between Franklin D. Roosevelt's and Barack Obama's economic recovery policies. He has discussed the lessons FDR's presidency holds for the Obama administration with a number of media outlets, including NPR, CNN and PBS NewsHour. Brands is the author of more than 20 books on American history and culture, including Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
