From the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs Nixon--The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies comes a dazzling panorama of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots; racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism, and the Landslide referendum on FDR\'s New Deal policies in the 1936 presidential election. and the parallels hauntingly akin to today\'s dangerously strife-ridden political and culture wars.. . .
The nation\'s stakes were high .
Crafting his account from an impressive and unprecedented collection of primary and secondary sources, Pietrusza has produced an engrossing, original, and authoritative account of an election, a president, and a nation at the crossroads.
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.
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.
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.
From the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs Nixon--The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies comes a dazzling panorama of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots; racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism, and the Landslide referendum on FDR\'s New Deal policies in the 1936 presidential election
