OCTOBER 31, 1936, LITERARY DIGEST, 2 MILLION POSTCARDS: ALF LANDON 57%, 370 ELECTORAL VOTES: 1/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
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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.
With in-depth examinations of rabble-rousing Democratic US Senator Huey Long and his assassination before he was able to challenge FDR in ’36; powerful, but widely hated, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, who blasted FDR’s “Raw Deal”; wildly popular, radical radio commentator Father Coughlin; the steamrolled passage of Social Security and backlash against it; the era’s racism and anti-Semitism; American Socialism and Communism; and a Supreme Court seemingly bent on dismantling the New Deal altogether, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America.
1940 FALA AT FOUR MONTHS.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a |
| 0:04.0 | is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:10.0 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, four times elected president of the United States. |
| 0:14.8 | The first re-election is the critical change from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, |
| 0:20.0 | the candidate from outside, from New York, in the Democratic Party dominated by the South |
| 0:26.1 | and had been even before the catastrophe of the Civil War, and into a national party, 1936. the |
| 0:35.0 | historian and into a national party 1936 I welcome David Petruia the historian and storyteller of |
| 0:40.0 | the new book Roosevelt Sweeps Nation, Subhead, FTR's 1936 landslide and the |
| 0:47.2 | triumph of the liberal ideal, revelatory about trends that are in place today, voting demographics, national |
| 0:56.3 | attention for where the Republicans do not fare, where the Democrats fare very |
| 1:01.6 | well. David, a very good evening to you, hearty congratulations, and we begin in 1936 as |
| 1:09.5 | Louis Howe lays dying and Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt's wife, very strong-minded |
| 1:17.2 | wife but alienated from his affections for many years, has attached yourself |
| 1:21.8 | to caring for Louis Howe in the hospital as he coughs himself |
| 1:26.7 | into what we know now is the end, the end days, a smoker, a smoker, an incessant smoker, and a man of very poor health habits. |
| 1:38.0 | But the man credited for riding with Roosevelt from the early success as a New York State Senator campaigning in |
| 1:46.1 | Duchess County all the way into the White House in the election of 32. It is now |
| 1:50.8 | April 36 and Louis is dying. |
| 1:54.0 | What does he represent to the president? |
| 1:56.0 | What does he represent to Eleanor? |
| 1:58.0 | Good evening to you, David. |
| 1:59.0 | Good evening. |
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