2/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 2/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)
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2/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 2/8: 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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| 0:35.0 | Muncham Nacho with David Pratusha, his new book is Roosevelt Sweeps Nation. |
| 0:39.0 | FDR's 1936 Landslide and the triumph of the liberal ideal. |
| 0:43.0 | Roosevelt is without his best advisor. |
| 0:46.0 | Louis B. Howe's, Louis Howe's gone. |
| 0:49.0 | Roosevelt now faces Al Smith, his old mentor, on his right, with the American Liberty League. |
| 0:56.0 | Preaching is the Constitution for sale. |
| 0:58.0 | Another provocative remarks that irritate the president. |
| 1:02.0 | He is very sensitive, although he's always laughing when you see him in the newsreels. |
| 1:06.0 | That is a style that Louis Howe approved of. |
| 1:10.0 | Just keep them laughing. |
| 1:11.0 | However, the president has to deal with the fact that he sits upon a Democratic party that has been solid, |
| 1:18.0 | since the Civil War and before, as what is politely known at the time as the way things are. |
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