Politics of upheaval, 1935-1936 /
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
- xiv, 749 p. Pbk.; 21 cm.
- The age of Roosevelt ; v. 3 .
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. 1917-2007. (Arthur Meier), Age of Roosevelt ; v. 3. .
"A Mariner book." Gratis $17.00/- Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1960. With new foreword.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [659]-714) and index.
The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDR’s critics to denounce “that man in the White house.” To his left were demagogues — Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order — ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time, the New Deal seemed to lose its momentum. But in 1935 FDR rallied and produced a legislative record even more impressive than the Hundred Days of 1933 — a set of statutes that transformed the social and economic landscape of American life. In 1936 FDR coasted to reelection on a landslide. Schlesinger has his usual touch with colorful personalities and draws a warmly sympathetic portrait of Alf M. Landon, the Republican candidate of 1936.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945.
Depressions--United States.--1929 New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States--History--1933-1945. United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.