Photo: #Stanford University history professor David Kennedy, speaking at the fourth annual Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

The 2008 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

The legacy of Franklin Roosevelt

Broadcast: Midday, 07/22/2008, 12:00 p.m.

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David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945," discussed the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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  • David Kennedy: History professor at Stanford University and author of "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945," "Over Here: The First World War" and "American Society, The American People in the Depression."

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