The Coming of the New Deal: The Age of Roosevelt, 1933–1935

The Coming of the New Deal: The Age of Roosevelt, 1933–1935
ISBN-10
0547527640
ISBN-13
9780547527642
Category
History
Pages
690
Language
English
Published
2003-07-09
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Arthur M. Schlesinger

Description

Volume two of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s Age of Roosevelt series describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first tumultuous years in the White House. Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression, FDR told the American people that they have nothing to fear but fear itself. The conventional wisdom having failed, he tried unorthodox remedies to avert economic collapse. His first hundred days restored national morale, and his New Dealers filled Washington with new approaches to recovery and reform. Combining idealistic ends with realistic means, Roosevelt proposed to humanize, redeem, and rescue capitalism. The Coming of the New Deal, written with Schlesinger’s customary verve, is a gripping account of critical years in the history of the republic. “Monumental…authoritative…spirited…one of the major works in American historical literature.”—New York Times “Impelling, an achievement as much in its sensitivity as in its scholarship…It is essential reading.”—Kirkus Reviews

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