Archives for January, 2013

1 of 14 Parts: George Peabody (1795-1869): A-Z Handbook of the Massachusetts-Born Merchant in the South, London-Based Banker, and Philanthropist’s Life, Influence, and Related People, Places, Events, and Institutions.

1 of 14 Parts: George Peabody (1795-1869): A-Z Handbook of the Massachusetts-Born Merchant in the South, London-Based Banker, and Philanthropist’s Life, Influence, and Related People, Places, Events, and Institutions. By Franklin Parker & Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net This work updates and expands Franklin Parker, George Peabody, A Biography (Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, ©1971, revised […]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Man of Destiny,” By Franklin and Betty J. Parker.

 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Man of Destiny,” By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, from best available sources, Book Review Dialogue, Uplands Retirement Village, Pleasant Hill, TN, Monday, September 20, 2010.  bfparker@frontiernet We chose Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) because we lived through his presidency and the two worst 20th century crises he faced, the 1930s Depression […]

 Franklin  & Betty J. Parker Christmas 2012 Message. bfparker@frontiernet.net             One Christmas 2012 surprise was to find Alabama-born Betty’s biographical sketch in Alabama Authors (to access: copy, paste on browser, click on): http://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/?p=1861          If the last-minute end-of-2012 Obama/Republican-Congress fiscal-cutting compromise holds, let’s hope it will join such high liberal moments as: Lincoln’s 13th Amendment salvaging the […]