Roosevelt Warming the Serpent

Roosevelt: Warming the Serpent by E. N. Sanctuary is a direct indictment of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s foreign and domestic policy, arguing that New Deal liberalism and wartime diplomacy strengthened forces hostile to constitutional government and Western stability. The book contends that in the effort to defeat fascism abroad and restructure the economy at home, Roosevelt cultivated alliances and administrative precedents that expanded centralized power and legitimized cooperation with Soviet communism. Framed as a warning, Sanctuary presents the Roosevelt era as a turning point in which executive authority, bureaucratic growth, and international commitments altered the American political order. The tone is accusatory and strategic, treating policy decisions not as isolated errors but as part of a broader pattern that compromised national sovereignty and encouraged ideological adversaries.