4/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 4/8: 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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4/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 4/8: 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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| 0:53.0 | And there are important figures because of their connection to previous successes. |
| 0:58.0 | The socialists had been successful since all that century. |
| 1:02.0 | Since the earliest vote, 1912, I believe, David Helping, |
| 1:05.0 | was 1912 their top or was 1920 their top. |
| 1:08.0 | I can't recall. |
| 1:09.0 | 1920 is when they top about 900 thought, |
| 1:13.0 | well, depends how you measure it. |
| 1:16.0 | 1920 they get the highest number of raw votes. |
| 1:19.0 | 1912 they get the highest percentage. |
| 1:23.0 | And even as late as 1932, Norman Thomas, |
| 1:26.0 | who was their perennial candidate at this point, |
| 1:29.0 | following their previous perennial candidate, Eugene V. Debs, |
| 1:33.0 | is still drawing 845,000 votes and drawing hundreds of thousands of votes |
| 1:39.0 | in the recent New York City mayoral election. |
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