6/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 6/8: 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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6/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 6/8: 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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| 1:01.0 | Well, you might not want to re-litigate 1929 and 1932 again. |
| 1:08.5 | So while there's a little bit of nostalgia for him and he gives a whiz-bang talk at the |
| 1:14.7 | Republican National Convention, uh no the answer is is absolutely not we don't want to go there again. |
| 1:22.7 | And Hoover reluctantly backs away. |
| 1:26.1 | I say reluctantly because he's making better speeches now. |
| 1:29.5 | You note that he's not stuck the way he was in 28 very very hard very difficult uh and what you say |
| 1:37.5 | slow pace presentation he's making much furrier remarks but we need to go to the other |
| 1:42.8 | choice at least early in the year. Weem Borah known as the Lion of Idaho. |
| 1:48.3 | Another character that you can't make up David so much of this strikes me all these decades later |
| 1:53.2 | as as characters out of a novel not out of history. What do we need to know about Borah and did |
| 1:59.3 | Roosevelt want to run against Borah? Borah was um a old line progressive but the very definition |
| 2:09.1 | of a maverick he rarely supported the Republican candidate for for president uh and often when he |
| 2:16.7 | didn't he just sit sit it out in terms of of peak. He was also aside from being the uh Lion of |
| 2:24.4 | Idaho he was the stallion of Boise and got around shall we say um and one of his conquest was |
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