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Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal

David Pietrusza

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Description:From the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs Nixon--The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies comes a dazzling panorama of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots; racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism, and the landslide referendum on FDR's New Deal policies in the 1936 presidential election.Award-winning historianDavid Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding FranklinRoosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weavingan enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarizednation; of America's most complex, calculating, and politically successfulpresident, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game;and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and ourparties fitfully reinvented themselves.With in-depth examinations of rabble-rousing Democratic USSenator Huey Long and his assassination before he was able to challenge FDR in'36; powerful, but widely hated, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, whoblasted FDR's "Raw Deal"; wildly popular, radical radio commentator FatherCoughlin; the steamrolled passage of Social Security and backlash against it; theera's racism anti-Semitism; American Socialism and Communism; and a SupremeCourt seemingly bent on dismantling the New Deal altogether, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America. Crafting his account from an impressive and unprecedentedcollection of primary and secondary sources, Pietrusza has produced anengrossing, original, and authoritative account of an election, a president, and a nation at the crossroads. The nation's stakes were high . .. and the parallels hauntingly akin to today's dangerously strife-riddenpolitical and culture wars.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal. To get started finding Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 449

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ISBN: 1635767784

Description: From the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs Nixon--The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies comes a dazzling panorama of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots; racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism, and the landslide referendum on FDR's New Deal policies in the 1936 presidential election.Award-winning historianDavid Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding FranklinRoosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weavingan enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarizednation; of America's most complex, calculating, and politically successfulpresident, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game;and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and ourparties fitfully reinvented themselves.With in-depth examinations of rabble-rousing Democratic USSenator Huey Long and his assassination before he was able to challenge FDR in'36; powerful, but widely hated, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, whoblasted FDR's "Raw Deal"; wildly popular, radical radio commentator FatherCoughlin; the steamrolled passage of Social Security and backlash against it; theera's racism anti-Semitism; American Socialism and Communism; and a SupremeCourt seemingly bent on dismantling the New Deal altogether, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America. Crafting his account from an impressive and unprecedentedcollection of primary and secondary sources, Pietrusza has produced anengrossing, original, and authoritative account of an election, a president, and a nation at the crossroads. The nation's stakes were high . .. and the parallels hauntingly akin to today's dangerously strife-riddenpolitical and culture wars.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal. To get started finding Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal

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