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NEW DEAL GENIUS: 7/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)

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🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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NEW DEAL GENIUS: 7/8: 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.

1936 NYC

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See 1 Peloton. code at UK. I'm John Bachelore with David Patricia, the historian and author of the new book Roosevelt Sweeps Nation.

0:41.0

It's campaign time.

0:43.0

Alf Landon and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the nominees of the major parties.

0:48.0

And we begin with the Landon campaign because there's not a great deal to say except for why there isn't a great deal to say.

0:53.6

David Landon does not attend the convention that nominates him.

0:58.4

What happens afterwards to remember?

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Thank you.

1:01.8

Well, he makes up for not being there by not being there,

1:06.2

by going on vacation for two weeks at a Ritzy-Dooge

1:10.2

Ranch, essentially, in Colorado and then not doing anything for another few weeks

1:17.7

while his his campaign staff goes out there but he doesn't but when he finally

1:22.3

does go out there, but he doesn't. But when he finally does go out there, he's more energetic. He's still a bad speaker, but he gives a series of speeches at the end of the campaign are towards the end on the tariffs on agriculture and most horribly

1:38.7

on Social Security already the third rail of American politics and proceeds to just lose chunk

1:47.8

after chunk of electoral support. We should mention there are polling results from this summer of 1936 that are striking.

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