Book Review: Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR by Dean Kotlowski.

• Jurisdiction: Derecho Internacional
• Author: Booth, Christopher
• Date: 01 April 2016

Kotlowski, Dean J. Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xviii + 581 pages. Hardcover, $45.00.

In renowned presidential historian Dean Kotlowski's latest book, Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR, the author brings from out of the shadows one of the most prominent American politicians of the 1930s. By utilizing numerous speeches, letters, archival records, newspaper articles, secondary sources and even first-hand research conducted in the Philippines, Kotlowski weaves together a superb biography of former Indiana Governor and democratic, presidential hopeful Paul Vories McNutt. Kotlowski, a professor of history at Salisbury University, contends that Paul McNutt was not merely a politician destined for obscurity, but instead was a complex man who possessed the requisite talent and skills to become president, yet never achieved that goal mostly due to the circumstances of the...