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      ISBN: 0395489040

      ISBN13: 9780395489048

      The Politics of Upheaval 1935-36

      (Book #3 in the The Age of Roosevelt Series)

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      The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDR's critics to denounce "that man in the White house." To his left were demagogues -- Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order -- ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time, the New Deal seemed to lose its momentum. But in 1935 FDR rallied and produced a legislative record even more impressive than the Hundred Days of 1933 -- a set of statutes that transformed the social and economic landscape of American life. In 1936 FDR coasted to reelection on a landslide. Schlesinger has his usual touch with colorful personalities and draws a warmly sympathetic portrait of Alf M. Landon, the Republican candidate of 1936. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      Rated 4 stars
      A more monumental work than Mt. Rushmore

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      The sheer immensity of this several-volume definitive biography of Roosevelt is staggering. To think that one man, Arthur Schlessinger, has published so much on one of the most important and controversial men in American (and, by extension, world) history, is just mind-numbing. In an age where collaborations have become the norm, the peculiarities of having a single person synthesize all of the information are especially valuable...

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      A Classic FDR Study

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      "The Politics of Upheaval" ranks as one of the finest narrative historical works in American annals. Arthur Mr. Schlesinger Jr., a former John F. Kennedy presidential aide and speechwriter to Democratic presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson, has crafted in highly readable fashion one of the premier studies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's groundbreaking first term.Schlesinger creates an enduring portrait of America's Depression...

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