SECOND TERM PROGRESSIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE: 1/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 12 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.
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| 0:40.0 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, four times elected president of the United States. |
| 0:46.0 | The first re-election is the critical change from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the candidate from outside, from New York, and the Democratic Party dominated |
| 0:56.6 | by the South and had been even before the catastrophe of the civil war. |
| 1:02.8 | And into a national party, 1936, I welcome David Petrucia, the historian and storyteller |
| 1:11.0 | of the new book Roosevelt Sweeps Nation, Subhead, FTR's 1936 landslide |
| 1:18.1 | and the triumph of the liberal ideal, revelatory about trends that are in place today, voting demographics, national |
| 1:27.5 | attention for where the Republicans do not fare, where the Democrats fare very well. |
| 1:34.0 | David, a very good evening to you, Hardy congratulations, and we begin in 1936 as |
| 1:40.7 | Louis Howe lays dying and Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt's |
| 1:45.9 | wife, very strong-minded wife but alienated from his affections for many years, |
| 1:51.3 | has attached herself to caring for Louis Howe in the |
| 1:54.9 | hospital as he coughs himself into what we know now is the end, the end days, a smoker, an incessant smoker and a man of very poor health |
| 2:08.0 | habits, but the man credited for riding with Roosevelt from the early success as a New York |
| 2:15.8 | State senator campaigning in Duchess County all the way into the White House in the |
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