Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal
David Pietrusza, "Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal"
English | ISBN: 1635767776 | 2022 | 544 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1635767776 | 2022 | 544 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US History
From the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs Nixon—The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies comes a dazzling panorama of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots; racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism, and the landslide referendum on FDR’s New Deal policies in the 1936 presidential election.
Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt’s unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America’s most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves.
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