SECOND TERM PROGRESSIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE: 4/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
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.NEW DEAL GENIUS: 1/8: 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.
1929 Hoover Opening Day
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm John Natch with David Patricia. His new book is Roosevelt Sweeps Nation. |
| 0:07.0 | FDR's 1936 landslide and the triumph of the liberal ideal. |
| 0:16.2 | The Communist Party of the United States of America, the Socialist Party, they have figures |
| 0:22.1 | that lead them and they're important figures because of their connection to previous successes. |
| 0:28.0 | The socialists had been successful since all that century since the earliest boat, 1912, I believe. |
| 0:35.0 | David helped me, was 1912 their top or was 1920 their top? I can't recall |
| 0:40.0 | but. 1920 is when they top about 900 thought. |
| 0:44.2 | Well, it depends how you measure it. |
| 0:46.4 | 1920, they get the highest number of raw votes. |
| 0:49.7 | 1912, they get the highest percentage and even as late as |
| 0:54.1 | 1932 Norman Thomas who is their perennial candidate at this point |
| 0:59.2 | following their previous perennial candidate Eugene V V. Debs, is still drawing 845,000 votes |
| 1:06.7 | and drawing hundreds of thousands of votes in the, in a recent New York City mayoral election. |
| 1:13.0 | So the socialists represent theory and book learning and classicism, |
| 1:19.0 | but they also appeal to what we would say is the Proto Union faction in the large city of New York. |
| 1:27.0 | Roosevelt regards them as a challenge because they can pick off pieces of New York State, |
| 1:32.0 | pieces of the electorate in New York City in particular and might cost him those electoral votes. |
| 1:39.0 | The Communist part of the USA is harder to imagine being a threat today but at the time it was led by a man |
| 1:47.4 | named Earl Browder and importantly David you've come up with a fact as to why Browder was |
| 1:52.4 | still the head of the party. He was Stalin's choice. Why? |
| 1:57.5 | Two reasons actually. One, he wasn't Jewish. |
| 2:01.2 | Stalin did not want a Jew representing the American Communist Party USA. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.