Fall of the House of Roosevelt Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ

Name: Fall of the House of Roosevelt Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ
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ISBN: 9780231131087

ISBN-10: 0231131089

ISBN-13: 9780231131087

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael Janeway

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In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star…

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List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/21/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.94" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Michael Janeway is professor of journalism and arts at Columbia University and is the author of Republic of Denial: Press, Politics, and Public Life. He has been special assistant to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, editor of The Boston Globe, and dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.



Preface: Public and Private


The Partners



Government by Brains Trust "God Bless You; Keep Scheming"



Tommy Corcoran and the New Dealers' Gospel "You're Beginning to Be an Operator--How do You Like the Water?"



Making the New Deal Revolution "The Sense of Being Special"



The Fight for the Rooseveltian Succession "Douglas's Army"



1945--The New Dealers' Government-in-Exile "I Got the Circuit Moving"


In my Father's House



Rise of an Insider "We're Going to Get Hubert Some Dough"



Ends and Means "Baby, You're Superb!"



Forbidden Version "Continue Janeway Inquiry"


Receivership



Enter LBJ, Stage Center "Average in Honesty, Above Average in Ability"



1960--Checkmate "Looking Back, the Result was Inevitable"



President of All the People "You Can't Deal with Him Any Longer"



Last Act "We Got Your Man"


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index