1/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 1/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)
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🗓️ 11 March 2023
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1/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 1/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-Sweeps-Nation-Landslide-Triumph/dp/1635767776
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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| 0:41.3 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt four times elected president of the United States. |
| 0:46.0 | The first reelection is the critical change from Franklin Delano Roosevelt the candidate |
| 0:52.4 | from outside from New York and the Democratic Party dominated by the South and had been |
| 0:59.2 | even before the catastrophe of the Civil War and into a national party 1936. |
| 1:06.3 | I welcome David Petrusha the historian and storyteller of the new book Roosevelt sweeps nation |
| 1:14.5 | subhead FDR's 1936 landslide and the triumph of the liberal ideal revelatory about trends |
| 1:23.2 | that are in place today voting demographics national attention for where the Republicans do not |
| 1:31.0 | fare where the Democrats fare very well. David a very good evening to you hearty congratulations |
| 1:37.5 | and we begin in 1936 as Louis Howe lays dying in Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt's |
| 1:46.8 | wife very strong-minded wife but alienated from his affections for many years has attached |
| 1:52.8 | yourself to caring for Louis Howe in the hospital as he coughs himself into what we know now |
| 2:00.6 | is the end the end days a a smoker a incessant smoker and a man of very poor health habits but |
| 2:09.9 | the man credited for riding with Roosevelt from the early success as a New York state senator |
| 2:16.8 | campaigning in Duchess County all the way into the White House in the election of 32 it is now |
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