Roosevelt Sweeps Nation (eBook)

FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal

David Pietrusza (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
544 Seiten
Diversion Books (Verlag)
978-1-63576-778-0 (ISBN)

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From "e;America's preeminent presidential historian . . . a thoughtful, highly entertaining portrait of Roosevelt's thrilling 1936 campaign and victory"e; (Bob Batchelor, award-winning cultural historian). Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US HistoryAward-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America's most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves. With in-depth examinations of rabble-rousing Democratic US Senator Huey Long and his assassination before he was able to challenge FDR in '36; powerful, but widely hated, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, who blasted FDR's "e;Raw Deal"e;; wildly popular, radical radio commentator Father Coughlin; the steamrolled passage of Social Security and backlash against it; the era's racism and anti-Semitism; American Socialism and Communism; and a Supreme Court 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 unprecedented collection of primary and secondary sources, Pietrusza has produced an engrossing, 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-ridden political and culture wars. "e;It has been many a moon since I had as much fun [as I did] reading Roosevelt Sweeps Nation."e; George F. Will, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2022
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1930s • Abraham Lincoln • acheson • Adolf Hitler • African Americans • Albert Cabell Ritchie • Alfred E. Smith • Alfred Landon • Alice Roosevelt Longworth • Al Smith • American Workers Party • Anti-Semitism • Arthur Brisbane • Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg • brain trust • Build Back Better • Burton K. Wheeler • Calvin Coolidge • Catholicism • CBS • Charles Coughlin • Charles Evan Hughes • Civil Conservation Corps • Civil Rights • communism • Communist Party • DEMOCRAT • democratic national committee • Dickinson • Dow Jones • Du Pont • Earl Browder • Earl Clements • Eleanor Medill Patterson • Eleanor Roosevelt • Elections • Electoral College • Episcopalian • Eugene Talmadge • Eugene V. Debs • Farmer-Labor party • father divine • FDR • Felix Frankfurter • Frances Perkins • Francis Everett Townsend • Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Frank Murphy • Gallup • General Elections & Political Process • George Norris • Gerald L.K. Smith • Germany • Good Neighbor League • GOP • Great Depression • Grover Cleveland • Hamilton Fish • Harold Ickes • Harry Hopkins • Henry Ford • Henry Morgenthau • Henry Wallace • Herbert Hoover • Herbert Lehman • Heywood C. Broun • history and theory of politics • huey long • Hugh Samuel Jackson • Hugo Black • Jack Dempsey • James Cox • James Curley • James Farley • James Ford • Joe Robinson • John Davis • john hamilton • John Henry Kirby • John Jacob Raskob • John L. Lewis • John Nance Garner • Joseph Ely • Joseph Kennedy • joseph stalin • J.P. Morgan • Ku Klux Klan • La Follette • La Guardia • Landon • Leadership • LeHand • Lenin • Louis McHenry Howe • Marion Davies • Marvin McIntyre • Mary McLeod Bethune • McAdoo • McKinley • mencken • Michelson • Mussolini • NAACP • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Recovery Administration • Navy • Nazi • NBC • New Deal • New York Times • Norman Mattoon Thomas • NRA • Old-Age Revolving Pension • Political parties • Political Science • politics & social sciences • popular vote • Presidential Election • Prohibition • Public Works Administration • Raymond Gram Swing • Raymond Moley • Republican • Rexford Guy Tugwell • Robert McCormick • Robert Moses • Roman Catholic • Roosevelt • Russia • Sam Rosenman • Scripps-Howard • SEC • Securities and Exchange Commission • Share-Our-Wealth • Socialism • socialist party • Social Security • Soviet Union • Stanley H. High • Steven Early • Supreme Court • tammany hall • Tennessee Valley Authority • Theodore Dreiser • Theodore Roosevelt • Thomas O’Brien • Thomas Stokes • Tommy Corcoran • treasury department • TVA • united states executive government • United States history • Upton Sinclair • US presidents • USSR • vote • Walter Lippmann • Warren Harding • William Allen White • William Bullitt • William E. Borah • William Franklin Knox • William Howard Taft • William Lemke • William Randolph Hearst • Woodrow Wilson • World War II History
• ISBN-10: 1-63576-778-4 / 1635767784
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63576-778-0 / 9781635767780