FDR offered one such sketch, taking time in particular to celebrate Andrew Jackson’s opening of the Mississippi valley, before dismissing it all with two sentences: “Today that life is gone. Its simplicity has vanished and we are each and all of us, whether we like it or not, parts of a social civilization which ever tends to greater complexity.”7 “We must lay hold of the fact,” Roosevelt said elsewhere, making the case for Social Security, “that the laws of economics are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”8 “This man-made world of ours,” Roosevelt called it, conveying a new
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