8/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 8/8: 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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8/8: When banks failed and capitalists panicked, once upon a time: 8/8: 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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| 0:38.3 | David Petrusha's book is great fun because at the time it was tragedy upon tragedy. |
| 0:43.2 | People were struggling to have confidence each day that there would be a tomorrow. |
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| 1:09.8 | The one where Roosevelt always returned to Hyde Park it was like he recharged his batteries |
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