The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

Polenberg, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312133103 ISBN 13: 9780312133108

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000

Synopsis

The 45 primary sources found in Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 provide you with a rich context to understand the multifaceted role FDR had as president, reformer, policymaker, and commander-in-chief.

About this title

About the Author:

RICHARD POLENBERG is professor of history at Cornell University, where he has received the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award and was appointed Goldwin Smith Professor of American History in 1986. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and has published widely on twentieth-century American history, including The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process (1997), Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech (1989), for which he won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award and the Gustavus Myers Foundation's Outstanding Book Award; and One Nation Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States since 1938 (1980).

Review:

"It is extraordinarily difficult to write a good capsule overview of FDR, and Polenberg does an outstanding job.... The essay is crisp, clear, and to the point, yet nuanced at the same time."

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312133103
• ISBN 13: 9780312133108
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251