The defining moment : FDR's hundred days and the triumph of hope
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Format
Book
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
973.917 ALTER
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973.917 ALTER
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Subjects
LC Subjects
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1932.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945.
United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1932.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- (Franklin Delano), -- 1882-1945.
United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
Physical Desc
xvi, 415 pages, [16] pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
UPC
9780743246002
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-395) and index.
Description
This is the story of a political miracle--the perfect match of man and moment. FDR took office in 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing, millions of people lost everything--the Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. Journalist Alter brings us closer than ever before to the Roosevelt magic. Facing the gravest crisis since the Civil War, instead of circumventing Congress and becoming the dictator so many thought they needed, FDR used his cagey political instincts and ebullient temperament in the storied first Hundred Days of his presidency to pull off a conjuring act that lifted the country and saved both democracy and capitalism. Alter shows us how a snobbish and apparently lightweight young aristocrat was forged into an incandescent leader by his domineering mother; his independent wife; his eccentric top adviser, Louis Howe; and his ally-turned-bitter-rival, Al Smith.--From publisher description.