NEW DEAL GENIUS: 4/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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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.
1936 SOCIAL SECURITY
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| 0:29.2 | Code at UK. I'm John Bouch with David Patricia. |
| 0:37.0 | His new book is Roosevelt Sweeps Nation. |
| 0:40.0 | FGR's 1936 landslide and the triumph of the liberal ideal. |
| 0:46.3 | The Communist Party of the United States of America, the Socialist Party, they have figures |
| 0:52.2 | that lead them, they're important figures because of their |
| 0:55.8 | connection to previous successes. The socialists had been successful all that century since the earliest boat |
| 1:03.8 | 1912 I believe David helped me was 1912 their top or was 1920 their |
| 1:08.9 | top I can't recall but |
| 1:10.1 | 1920 is when they top about 900 thought well depends how you measure it |
| 1:16.0 | 1920 they get the highest number of raw votes 1912 they get the highest |
| 1:21.6 | percentage and even as late as 1932 |
| 1:25.9 | Norman Thomas who is their perennial candidate at this point following their |
| 1:30.6 | previous perennial candidate Eugene V. Debs, is still drawing 845,000 votes |
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