Roosevelt, a Revolutionary with Common Sense - Hardcover

Dr. Helmut Magers; Translated From German By Marianne Farrin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0984121145 ISBN 13: 9780984121144

Publisher: Shady Tree Press, New York, 2012

Synopsis

A perspective on the rise to power of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the importance of his New Deal and his political acumen as he attempts to lead the nation out of the Great Depression.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Helmut Magers, a well know political journalist in Berlin as Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor, spent a year in America, recording his observations of the election of FDR, the new president's political instincts, and his plans for a country in trouble.

Review:

Helmut Magers' reflection on Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the daunting challenges to American society posed by the Great Depression provide a remarkable prescient, and hitherto overlooked, contemporary German perspective on the relevance of the New Deal to a world in crisis. Combining an astute assessment of Roosevelt's political skills and a detailed account of the economic policies his administration pursued in its early days in power, Magers implicitly suggests that the common sense revolution they were pursuing might serve as a model for Germany and other strife-ridden societies thrown into turmoil by the collapse of the global capitalist system. --Dr. Michael Adas, Historian, Rutgers University

About this edition

• Publisher: Shady Tree Press, New York
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0984121145
• ISBN 13: 9780984121144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 132
• Editor: Foreword By Amb. William E. Dodd