SECOND TERM PROGRESSIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE: 5/8: 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
⏱️ 11 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.
1935 FDR Opening Day
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| 0:38.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:41.0 | Roosevelt Sweeps Nation, the new book from David Petruia, FTR's 1936 landslide, and the |
| 0:47.5 | triumph of the liberal ideal. |
| 0:49.8 | From the point of view of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There are figures on his left, there are figures on |
| 0:55.7 | his right, there are figures who represent the Communist Party, there are figures who represent |
| 1:01.0 | outright celebration of the dictators in Europe at this time, |
| 1:06.0 | Mussolini and Hitler. |
| 1:08.0 | But there is one figure that represents all of the above or none of the above |
| 1:12.0 | depending on the day of the week. |
| 1:14.0 | William Randolph Hurst, born 1863. |
| 1:18.0 | He is 72 years old, 73 years old at this point, and yet he can pick up the phone and reach |
| 1:26.6 | anybody in America, including the President of the United States. |
| 1:31.6 | David, it is a complication to summarize Hearst. |
| 1:36.0 | With Roosevelt in particular, he was for him before he was against him before he was for |
| 1:41.0 | and before he was against him. Let's keep ourselves right now to 32 to 36. |
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