When Franklin saw that his wise-sayings stuck in the popular memory, he rebooted them without irony inThe Way to Wealth(1758) as the sage advice of a new character, the pious Father Abraham. By 1790, Franklin was dead, his old jokes forgotten. But his sayings lived on as lessons for sc...
Herbert Hoover was overwhelmingly defeated by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Republicans were relegated to the status of a minority party. Roosevelt’s three reelections (he was the only president to serve more than two terms), the succession of Harry S. Truman to the presidency on ...