David Cannadine

Things then went very badly with FDR, at which point everything changed, despite his nominally being a member of their class.

David Cannadine, noting this in his book Melon, which is a biography of really the whole Melon family, writes, Roosevelt fully reciprocated the enmity increasingly felt toward him by bankers, businessmen, and plutocrats.

Like his kinsman, Theodore, he looked on new money with a mixture of snobbery and disdain.

As a man whose own business ventures had not prospered during the 1920s, he was also envious and disapproving of those who had done so much better.

I want my work to be respected by academic historians.

I was really lucky to study with incredible historians like Neil Ferguson, Jill Lepore, David Reynolds, David Cannadine's a mentor of mine, Maya Jasanoff.

These are folks that I had the incredible good fortune to be able to learn from.

And so I want my work to stand up to the rigorous scrutiny of the academic community.