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SECOND TERM PROGRESSIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE: 6/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Lberal Ideal by David Pietrusza (Author)

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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SECOND TERM PROGRESSIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE: 6/8: Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Lberal 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.

1934 Senator Huey Long

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0:00.0

Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

0:04.0

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

0:09.1

tropics.

0:10.1

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

0:13.4

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

0:18.0

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

0:23.0

Wish you were here.

0:24.0

Follow the price of Paradise Now, and we go to the nominees

0:39.9

for the Republican Party in 1936 to face the president running for re-election.

0:45.8

President weighed down by all these opponents and we need a Republican opponent

0:50.8

because that will be the major party and the first Republican opponent because that will be the major party.

0:53.0

And the first Republican opponent in the president's mind is,

0:56.0

I want to run against Hoover.

0:58.0

Does the Republican Party want to run Hoover, David?

1:01.0

Well, you might not want to re-litigate 1929 and 1932 again. So while there's a little bit of nostalgia for him and he gives a whiz bang talk at the Republican National Convention.

1:17.0

No, the answer is absolutely not. We don't want to go there again.

1:22.0

And Hoover reluctantly backs away.

1:26.0

I say reluctantly because he's making better speeches now.

1:29.0

You note that he's not stuck the way he was in 28, very, very hard, very difficult and what you say slow-paced presentation.

1:38.8

He's making much inferior remarks, but we need to go to the other choice, at least early in the year, William

1:45.4

Bora, known as the Lion of Idaho, another character that you can't make up David.

1:50.5

So much of this strikes me all these decades later as as characters out of

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