Obama and FDR "The Defining Moment"

As we've heard over and over, we face the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. As Obama takes office he faces conditions reminiscent of 1932.  He has said, that he will use FDR as a guide and that he has read Jonathan Alter's book The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. 

Here is my conversation with Jonathan Alter: