The term used to describe then presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 due to Roosevelt's indecision on the Prohibition issue. Jonathan Alter of Newsweek magazine has a new book entitled "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope," in which FDR's rise from unknown to legendary president is chronicled and the aforementioned fact is noted.
What a giant of a man. As most historians are starting to understand, FDR's New Deal was not a quick fix to the Great Depression and many of its programs were in their infancy under Herbert Hoover, however no president did more to lift the general welfare of the common man than FDR. Alter's book on the top of my reading list this summer. I can't wait.
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