The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 2) - Softcover

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618340866 ISBN 13: 9780618340866

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2003

Synopsis

The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first tumultuous years in the White House. Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression, FDR told the American people that they have nothing to fear but fear itself. The conventional wisdom having failed, he tried unorthodox remedies to avert economic collapse. His first hundred days restored national morale, and his New Dealers filled Washington with new approaches to recovery and reform. Combining idealistic ends with realistic means, Roosevelt proposed to humanize, redeem, and rescue capitalism. The Coming of the New Deal, written with Schlesinger’s customary verve, is a gripping account of critical years in the history of the republic.

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About the Author:

ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. He was also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0618340866
• ISBN 13: 9780618340866
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 688