FDR: The First Hundred Days
- ISBN-10
- 0809015609
- ISBN-13
- 9780809015603
- Series
- FDR
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-06-09
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Anthony J. Badger
Description
A chronicle of the initial fifteen weeks of the thirty-second president's administration evaluates FDR's accomplishments while offering insight into why they have been upheld as a measure for subsequent presidencies, in an account that includes coverage of such topics as period unemployment, financial challenges, and the sixteen major bills that increased executive discretionary powers. Reprint.
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