An instant New York Times bestseller, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington is a groundbreaking chronicle of American politics. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified documents, over one hundred interviews, and material unearthed from presidential archives across the country, Secret City illuminates how cultural and political anxiety over gay people shaped the administrations of each successive twentieth-century president—from […]

Žižek contends that the Culture War raging in the developed West is a false war, a war between two versions of the same global capitalist system: its unrestrained pure version and its “neo-Fascist” conservative version which tries to unite capitalist dynamism with traditional values and liberties. As Žižek argues, the paradox is here double: Western […]

Roosevelt House is pleased to present a lecture by distinguished legal scholar Kermit Roosevelt III—great-great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, first cousin (three times removed) of Eleanor Roosevelt, and distant cousin of FDR—on his new book The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story. Eye-opening, provocative, and timely, The Nation That Never Was delivers a powerful reinterpretation […]

As the home where FDR struggled against the paralyzing effects of polio, where he recovered, regained a degree of mobility, and reclaimed a sense of independence, Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President. The author, journalist and historian Jonathan Darman, will be in conversation with Jonathan Alter, also […]