My guest is the Terry Golway, author of Together We Cannot Fail, FDR and the American presidency in Years of Crisis.
Our subject is the legacy of FDR, his speeches, their impact, and the crisis of the banks in the 1930’s and what we face today!
                                
Terry Golway is the director of the John Kean Center for American History at Kean University in Union, N.J. A former member of the New York Times Editorial Board and city editor of the New York Observer, he is the author of several books, including:

    * “Together We Cannot Fail,” a study of Franklin Roosevelt’s speeches.
    * “Fellow Citizens,” the Penguin Book of Inaugural Addresses, co-written
        with Robert Remini;
    *  “Let Every Nation Know,” a study of John F. Kennedy’s speeches; 
    *   “Washington’s General,” a biography of Nathanael Greene;
    *  “So Others Might Live,” a history of the Fire Department of New York; 
    *  “For the Cause of Liberty,” a history of Irish nationalism; 
    * “Irish Rebel,” a biography of the Irish-American journalist John Devoy.
                                                             
                                                                                                                                  
                                                                 

                                                                          
Golway served as a consultant to the Museum of the City of New York for its 2008 exhibit, “Catholics in New York,” and he edited a book of essays about Catholics in New York to be published by Fordham University Press in May.

Golway has appeared on several documentaries on PBS and the History Channel. He has been a guest speaker at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Society of the Cincinnati of New England, New York University’s Ireland House, the New College of California, Catholic University of America, and Fordham University’s Bishop Hughes Center for Culture and Religion. He is a frequent contributor to American Heritage, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times. He is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University and lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.

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