This compact study assesses the personality, political and economic policies in war and peace, of America's longest-serving president and one of the most important political figures of the twentieth century, Franklin. D. Roosevelt. Also providing an overview of the America over which Roosevelt presided, the book offers a concise survey of both domestic and foreign affairs.
In March 1934 , all three members of the state's Civil Works Administration board resigned in protest over a drastic reduction in the Massachusetts job quota . Washington then named Joseph Carney to head the Federal Emergency Relief ...
See William E. Leuchtenburg , Perils of Prosperity ( Chicago : University of Chicago , 1958 ) . 10. George Marsden , Fundamentalism and American Culture : The Shaping of Twentieth Century Evangelism , pp .
Murray Edelman, The Politics of Misinformation, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 11. 41. Murray Edelman, Politics as Symbolic Action, (Chicago: Markham Publishing Company, 1971), 7. 42. One could easily substitute ideology ...
Securities Regulation and the New Deal
John Kenneth Galbraith , The Great Crash , 1929 ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1979 ) , 176n9 . 6. Howard J. Sherman , Business Cycles ( Princeton ,. 2. Robert H. Ferrell , The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge ...
The "New Deal era" is hard to define with precision - in time or in ideology. This book contains essays that focus on the prewar period, with glimpses forward to the rhetoric of the approach to and engagement in World War II.
The New Deal was not the same deal for men and women - a finding strikingly demonstrated in Dividing Citizens. The book provides a historical account of how governing institutions and public policies shape social status and civic life.
Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt.