Fdr And The American Crisis

Author : Albert Marrin
Publisher : Ember
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780385753623

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FDR and the American Crisis by Albert Marrin Pdf

The definitive biography of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt for young adult readers, from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin, is a must-have for anyone searching for President's Day reading. Brought up in a privileged family, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had every opportunity in front of him. As a young man, he found a path in politics and quickly began to move into the public eye. That ascent seemed impossible when he contracted polio and lost the use of his legs. But with a will of steel he fought the disease—and public perception of his disability—to become president of the United States of America. FDR used that same will to guide his country through a crippling depression and a horrendous world war. He understood Adolf Hitler, and what it would take to stop him, before almost any other world leader did. But to accomplish his greater goals, he made difficult choices that sometimes compromised the ideals of fairness and justice. FDR is one of America’s most intriguing presidents, lionized by some and villainized by others. National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin explores the life of a fascinating, complex man, who was ultimately one of the greatest leaders our country has known.

Author : Alonzo L. Hamby,Professor of History Alonzo Hamby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684843407

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For the Survival of Democracy by Alonzo L. Hamby,Professor of History Alonzo Hamby Pdf

"For the Survival of Democracy" is a masterful retelling of the prewar crisis years that situates Franklin Roosevelt and America in the larger context of German, British, and world history--rendering the most accurate picture to date of FDRUs extraordinary leadership.

Author : David Mayers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107031265

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FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis by David Mayers Pdf

A fascinating history of American diplomacy in the Second World War and the ways US ambassadors shaped formal foreign policy.

Author : David F. Schmitz
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612343136

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The Triumph of Internationalism by David F. Schmitz Pdf

When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in March 1933, he initially devoted most of his attention to finding a solution to the Great Depression. But the pull of war and the results of FDR's foreign policy ultimately had a deeper and more transformative impact on U.S. history. The Triumph of Internationalism offers a fresh, concise analysis and narrative of FDR's foreign policy from 1933 to America's entry into World War II in 1941. David Schmitz covers the attempts to solve the international economic crisis of the Great Depression, the Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America, the U.S. response to war in Europe and the Pacific, and other topics of this turbulent era. Schmitz describes Roosevelt as an internationalist who set out to promote U.S. interests abroad short of direct intervention. He tried to make amends for past transgressions with the nation's southern neighbors, eventually attempted to open and promote international trade to foster economic growth, and pursued containment policies intended to halt both the Japanese threat in the Pacific through deterrence and German aggression in Europe through economic appeasement. When his policies regarding the Axis powers failed, he began educating the American public about the dangers of Axis hegemony and rearming the nation for war. This effort required a profound shift in the American mind-set, given the prevailing isolationism, the disillusionment with America's involvement in World War I, and the preoccupation with domestic problems. A less powerful president would likely have failed, or perhaps not even attempted, to alter the prevailing public opinion. FDR revived American internationalism and reshaped the public's understanding of the national interest and defense. Roosevelt's policies and the outcome of World War II made the United States a superpower without equal.

Author : Sally Denton
Publisher : NevadaSmith Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733658009

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The Plots Against the President by Sally Denton Pdf

An anarchist assassin, demagogues, and a plotted coup d'état-the forgotten history of the forces that lashed out against FDR as he took the helm of a country on the brink. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the 32nd president. Swept in by a landslide, he now took charge of a country in the grip of panic brought on by economic catastrophe.

Author : Gloria J. Barron
Publisher : Associated Faculty Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015001574378

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Leadership in Crisis by Gloria J. Barron Pdf

Author : Terry Golway
Publisher : Sourcebooks Mediafusion
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1402217161

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Together We Cannot Fail by Terry Golway Pdf

A biography like no other: hear the voice that led the nation out of darkness and into victory This vivid portrait shows a nation at its best and at its worst through the lens of the first American presidency truly impacted by the media age. An FDR biography unlike any other, Together We Cannot Fail offers a new view of how Roosevelt transformed an insular America into the world's most revered and feared superpower. An exclusive accompanying CD uses FDR's own stirring words to illustrate how he led the nation through the Great Depression and World War II to its "rendezvous with destiny." Historian Terry Golway brings alive how Roosevelt saved America from its worst fears and forever changed how Americans live and view themselves. This unique biography shows how FDR invented and established the practice of the media presidency with his famous fireside chats—the first presidential speeches broadcast nationally from the White House.

Author : Franklin D. Roosevelt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732667567

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State of the Union Addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt Pdf

Reproduction of the original: State of the Union Addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Author : Barbara Reardon Farnham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691227511

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Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis by Barbara Reardon Farnham Pdf

Franklin Roosevelt's intentions during the three years between Munich and Pearl Harbor have been a source of controversy among historians for decades. Barbara Farnham offers both a theory of how the domestic political context affects foreign policy decisions in general and a fresh interpretation of FDR's post-Munich policies based on the insights that the theory provides. Between 1936 and 1938, Roosevelt searched for ways to influence the deteriorating international situation. When Hitler's behavior during the Munich crisis showed him to be incorrigibly aggressive, FDR settled on aiding the democracies, a course to which he adhered until America's entry into the war. This policy attracted him because it allowed him to deal with a serious problem: the conflict between the need to stop Hitler and the domestic imperative to avoid any risk of American involvement in a war. Because existing theoretical approaches to value conflict ignore the influence of political factors on decision-making, they offer little help in explaining Roosevelt's behavior. As an alternative, this book develops a political approach to decision-making which focuses on the impact that awareness of the imperatives of the political context can have on decision-making processes and, through them, policy outcomes. It suggests that in the face of a clash of central values decision-makers who are aware of the demands of the political context are likely to be reluctant to make trade-offs, seeking instead a solution that gives some measure of satisfaction to all the values implicated in the decision.

Author : Marian Cecilia McKenna
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0823221547

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Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War by Marian Cecilia McKenna Pdf

This important book is a detailed reinterpretation of one of the most explosive events in modern American politics - Franklin Roosevelt's controversial attempt in 1937 to "pack" the Supreme Court by adding justices who supported his New Deal policies. McKenna traces in unprecedented detail theorigins of FDR's plan, its secret history, and the President's final failure. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources McKenna provides the definitive account of a turning point in American political and legal history.

Author : Jonathan Alter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743246019

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The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter Pdf

In this dramatic and authoritative account, the author shows how Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his famous "fear itself" speech and the first 100 days in office to lift the country from despair and paralysis and transform the American presidency.

Author : Sebastian Edwards
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691196046

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American Default by Sebastian Edwards Pdf

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy.

Author : Mario R. DiNunzio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216086772

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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Third American Revolution by Mario R. DiNunzio Pdf

This book argues that Franklin D. Roosevelt's work—of which the New Deal was a prime example—was rooted in a definitive political ideology tied to the ideals of the Progressive movement and the social gospel of the late 19th century. Roosevelt's New Deal resulted in such dramatic changes within the United States that it merits the label "revolutionary" and ranks with the work of Washington and Lincoln in its influence on the American nation. The New Deal was not simply the response to a severe economic crisis; it was also an expression of FDR's well-developed political ideology stemming from his religious ideas and his experience in the Progressive movement of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Third American Revolution describes the unfolding of his New Deal response to the crisis of the Depression and chronicles the bitter conservative opposition that resisted every step in the Roosevelt revolution. The author's analysis of Roosevelt's political thought is supported by FDR's own words contained in the key documents and various speeches of his political career. This book also documents FDR's recognition of the dangers to democracy from unresponsive government and identifies his specific motivations to provide for the general welfare.

Author : Donald E. Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742543048

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The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis by Donald E. Collins Pdf

When the Civil War ended, Jefferson Davis had fallen from the heights of popularity to the depths of despair. In this fascinating new book, Donald E. Collins explores the resurrection of Davis to heroic status in the hearts of white Southerners culminating in one of the grandest funeral processions the nation had ever seen. As schools closed and bells tolled along the thousand mile route, Southerners appeared en masse to bid a final farewell to the man who championed Southern secession and ardently defended the Confederacy.

Author : Amos Kiewe
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603444545

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FDR's First Fireside Chat by Amos Kiewe Pdf

"I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States."Thus began not only the first of Franklin Roosevelt?s celebrated radio addresses, collectively called Fireside Chats, but also the birth of the media era of the rhetorical presidency. Humorist Will Rogers later said that the president took "such a dry subject as banking and made everyone understand it, even the bankers." Roosevelt also took a giant step toward restoring confidence in the nation?s banks and, eventually, in its economy. Amos Kiewe tells the story of the First Fireside Chat, the context in which it was constructed, the events leading to the radio address, and the impact it had on the American people and the nation?s economy.Roosevelt told America, "The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public?on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system." Kiewe succinctly demonstrates how the rhetoric of the soon-to-be-famous First Fireside Chat laid the groundwork for that support and the recovery of American capitalism.