Coming of the New Deal 1933-1935, the Age of Roosevelt, Volume II

Name: Coming of the New Deal 1933-1935, the Age of Roosevelt, Volume II
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ISBN: 9780618340866

ISBN-10: 0618340866

ISBN-13: 9780618340866

Edition: 1958

Authors: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Arthur M. Schlesinger

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The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr."s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt"s first tumultuous years in the White House. Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression, FDR told the American people that they have nothing to fear but fear itself. The conventional wisdom having failed, he tried unorthodox remedies to avert economic collapse. His first hundred days restored national morale, and his New Dealers filled Washington with new approaches to recovery and reform. Combining idealistic ends with realistic means, Roosevelt proposed to humanize, redeem, and rescue…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1958
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. is renowned as a historian, a public intellectual, & a political activist. He served as a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy; won two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1946 for "The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days," & in 1998 was the recipient of the National Humanities Medal. He lives in New York City.



Foreword to the Mariner Edition


Foreword



Prologue: The Hundred Days



The Fight for Agricultural Balance



Emergence of a Farm Policy



Organization of Agricultural Adjustment



The Politics of Agriculture



The Ordeal of a Prophet



Experiment in Industrial Planning



The Birth of NRA



The Blue Eagle



The Conundrum of Price



The Conundrum of Labor



The Decline of NRA



The Economics of Nationalism



The First New Deal



The Dollar Dilemma



Explosion in London



Variations in Gold and Silver



The Triumphs of Reciprocity



The Cry in the Streets



The Rise of Federal Relief



The Fight for Public Works



The Birth of Social Security



The Battle for Public Development



Remaking the Tennessee Valley



Saving the Land



The Revival of Community



War against Rural Poverty



Transformation of a Labor Movement



The Travail of Labor



Development of a National Labor Policy



Emergence of the CIO



Resurgence on the Right



The Bridge to Business



Alienation of the Financial Community



Crisis in the Skies



Controlling the Stock Exchanges



The Rise of Conservative Opposition



The Verdict of 1934



Evolution of the Presidency



The Dynamics of Decision



The Control of Government



The Anatomy of Leadership



Behind the Mask


Notes


Index