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Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 A Brief History with Documents

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ISBN-10: 0312133103

ISBN-13: 9780312133108

Edition: 2000

Authors: Richard Polenberg

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The essays in this work explore Roosevelt's multi-faceted role as President, reformer, policymaker, and Commander in Chief. They cover issues of race and ethnicity, profile First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and examine the impact of his policies.
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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 1/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 251
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.19" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Liberalism
FDR: The Paradox
Hyde Park to Washington
The New Deal, 1933-1936
The Waning of Reform, 1937-1940
Liberals at War, 1941-1945
FDR: The Legacy
The Documents
FDR as President
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
First Press Conference, March 8, 1933
Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1935
Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936
Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937
Speeches on Conservation and the Environment, 1936-1937
The New Deal
The National Labor Relations Act, February 21, 1935
The Social Security Act, September 2, 1935
The Crisis in Agriculture, September 12, 1936
Federal Relief, September 19, 1936
The Federal Theatre Project, May 11, 1938
Eleanor Roosevelt and American Women
Women in the Labor Force, June 16, 1938
Women and the New Deal, April 8, 1936
Women in Politics, March-April 1940
Documenting the Depression: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange
Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta, 1936
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
Mexican Migratory Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Small Independent Gas Station during Cotton Strike, Kern City, California, November 1938
Right and Left Face
The Challenge to Liberty, 1934
The New Deal vs. Democracy, July 15, 1936
The EPIC Plan, 1934
The National Union for Social Justice, November 11, 1934
Share Our Wealth, May 23, 1935
Race, Ethnicity, and Reform
Songs of the Mexican Migration: Deported [Deportados], 1933
The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, 1940
The NAACP and Segregation, January-February 1934
The March on Washington, November 1942
A New Deal for American Indians, 1938
The Voice of a Navajo Indian, April 10, 1934
The Constitutional Revolution
United States v. Butler, January 6, 1936
Unpacking the Court, February 13, 1937
A Greatly Dangerous Precedent, July 19, 1937
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, March 29, 1937
Helvering v. Davis, May 24, 1937
Morale in Wartime: A Portfolio of Propaganda Posters
United We Win, 1943
Do the Job HE Left Behind, 1943[?]
Lookout Monks! Here's Your Plane Warning! 1942
Buy Victory Bonds, 1945
The "Good War"?
Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, April 30, 1942
Footprints: Poetry of the American Relocation Camp Experience, ca. 1942-1944
Korematsu v. United States, December 18, 1944
Debate about the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, May 20, 1943
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, June 14, 1943
Report to the Secretary [of the Treasury] on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews, January 13, 1944
Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz, July-November 1944
Race, Religion, and Prejudice, May 11, 1942
An Economic Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944
Appendices
Chronology of Events during the Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index