• Deja Vu: Technocrats Called for Dictatorship and Technocracy In 1932

    Deja Vu: Technocrats Called for Dictatorship and Technocracy In 1932
    In my tattered copy of Henry A. Porter’s Roosevelt and Technocracy (1932), an early reader drew a careful bracket around a single passage on page 72. It reads: “Radical and immediate changes in both our political and economic systems will be necessary. This can best be accomplished by vesting supreme and emergency power in some one man who has the confidence and respect of a majority of the American people. That man is FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT — to whom should be given dictatorial

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