5/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 5/8: 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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5/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 5/8: 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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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.4 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:11.2 | Roosevelt sweeps nation, the new book from David Petrusha. |
| 0:14.9 | FDR is 1936 landslide and the triumph of the liberal ideal. |
| 0:19.6 | From the point of view of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, |
| 0:23.1 | there are figures on his left, there are figures on his right, |
| 0:26.8 | there are figures who represent the Communist Party, |
| 0:29.2 | there are figures who represent outright celebration |
| 0:33.2 | of the dictators in Europe at this time, Mussolini and Hitler. |
| 0:37.7 | But there is one figure that represents all of the above |
| 0:41.0 | or none of the above depending on the day of the week. |
| 0:43.5 | William Randolph Hurst, born 1863. |
| 0:48.9 | He is 72 years old, 73 years old at this point. |
| 0:54.2 | And yet he can pick up the phone and reach anybody in America, |
| 0:58.1 | including the president of the United States. |
| 1:01.4 | David, it is a complication to summarize Hurst. |
| 1:05.6 | With Roosevelt in particular, he was foreign before he was against him, |
| 1:10.0 | before he was foreign before he was against him. |
| 1:12.7 | Let's keep ourselves right now to 32 to 36. |
| 1:17.0 | What was Hurst's opinion of Roosevelt in the campaign of 32 facing Herbert Hoover? |
| 1:24.1 | Didn't like him, didn't like Hoover, didn't like Al Smith, didn't like anyone except John Dance Gardener. |
| 1:30.6 | And the Roosevelt has a problem in 1932. |
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