The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different approaches to the question of the day: How could the nation recOver from the Great Depression? As historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War, FDR laid out coherent, far-ranging plans for the New Deal in the months prior to his inauguration.
He lives in Davis, California..
He is the author of several acclaimed books on the subject, including The Money Makers, The Great Depression and the New Deal, and Blessed Among Nations, and has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, Dissent, The American Prospect.
About the Author: Eric Rauchway is a distinguished historian and expert on the Progressive and New Deal eras at the University of California, Davis.
Winter War reveals how, in the months before the hundred days, FDR and Hoover battled Over ideas and shaped the divisive politics of the twentieth century.
Thus, even before FDR took office, both the principles of the welfare state, and reaction against it, had already taken form.
Meanwhile, still-President Hoover, worried about FDR\'s abilities and afraid of the president-elect\'s policies, became the First comprehensive critic of the New Deal.
The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different approaches to the question of the day: How could the nation recOver from the Great Depression? As historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War, FDR laid out coherent, far-ranging plans for the New Deal in the months prior to his inauguration
