Talk:Frank Kent

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Notability: Kent was a nationally syndicated columnist and author of serious political history that is still cited in the bibliographies. There are scholarly articles about his career.

Kent's work is cited in current scholarship such as Theodore Rosenof. Realignment: the theory that changed the way we think about American politics‎ ; Gary Dean Best, Pride, prejudice, and politics; James Farr, Discipline and history: political science in the United States‎; and Bernard Crick, The American science of politics: its origins and conditions‎. John F Kennedy relied on Kent by name in his famous Profile in Courage

Neutrality: the article explains where Kent stood and does not take sides for or against him.

Sources: the article is based on Goll, Eugene W. "Frank R. Kent's Opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal," Maryland Historical Magazine 1968 63(2): 158-171--the leading scholarly journal for Maryland history.

Context: the opening sentences set the context: he "was an influential American journalist of the 1920s and 1930s. Based in Baltimore, where the Sun papers syndicated his daily column of political commentary, Kent was a widely read newspaper columnist of the early 1930's who, though a loyal Democrat, opposed Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal." Rjensen (talk) 06:02, 15 January 2010 (UTC)