Harvey J. Kaye 
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SOURCE: PEN
8-12-14
Harvey Kaye says in an interview that his hero has always been Thomas Paine
"I would love to be identified with his words, words such as 'The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.' ”
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
6-10-13
Harvey J. Kaye: Why Obama Is No FDR
Harvey J. Kaye is Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (FSG 2005) and the forthcoming The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great (Simon & Schuster, 2014). Follow him on Twitter: www.twitter.com/HarveyJKayeCampaigning for a third term as president in 1940, Franklin Roosevelt told an enthusiastic crowd in Cleveland: “You provided work for free men and women … You used the powers of government to stop the depletion of the top soil … You wrote into law the right of working men and women to bargain collectively … You turned to the problems of youth and age … You made safe the banks.”
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