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In the 1930s and 40s America was ravaged by unemployment, poverty and conflict. Franklin D. Roosevelt led the country through the two great crises of mass unemployment and the Second World War in a style that leads Patrick Renshaw to call him 'the most important President of the twentieth... read more
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People edit
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: (1882-1945) The 32nd President of the United States.
- Bernard Baruch: Add a description of this character.
- Adolf Berle
- Winston Churchill
- James M. Cox
- Homer Cummings
- Marriner Eccles
- James Farley
- John Nance Garner
- Sidney Hillman
- Adolf Hitler
- Herbert Hoover
- Harry Hopkins
- Louis Howe
- Cordell Hull
- Harold Ickes
- Hugh S. Johnson
- John Maynard Keynes
- Missy LeHand
- John L. Lewis
- William Gibbs McAdoo
- Raymond Moley
- Henry Morgenthau
- Benito Mussolini
- Basil O'Connor
- Frances Perkins
- John J. Raskob
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Sam Rosenman
- Al Smith
- Josef Stalin
- Rexford Tugwell
- Robert F. Wagner
- Henry A. Wallace
- Wendell Willkie
- Woodrow Wilson
Setting & Locations edit
- Latin America
- New York City
- United States
- Britain
- Japan
- Germany
- Tammany Hall
- Europe
- China
- New Deal
- Washington
- White House
- Italy
- Chicago
- Soviet Union
- London
- Pacific
- Albany
- Abyssinia
- Wall Street
- North Africa
- California
- Hyde Park
- Poland
- Yalta
- Mississippi
- Tennessee
- Groton
- Ohio
- Austria
- Warm Springs
- Texas
- Far East
- Czechoslovakia
- Manchuria
- Spain
- Atlantic
- Michigan
- Raskob
- Campobello
- Russia
- Columbia
- Iowa
- Munich
First Sentence edit
The railway track which bore Frankln Delano Roosevelt's funeral train from Warm Springs, Georgia, on 13 April 1945 was crowded with mourners.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Chronology
Abbreviations and Code Names
1. The Paradox of Power
2. The Power of Patrician Upbringing, 1882-1911
3. Power in Albany and Washington, 1911-21
4. The Fight to Regain Power, 1921-29
5. Power as Governor, 1929-33
6. Power, Banking, Agriculture and the New Deal
7. Power, Industry and the New Deal, 1933-35
8. Power and Reform, 1935-37
9. Power at Home in Peace and War, 1937-45
10. Power Abroad in Peace and War, 1933-45
Conclusion: Sex, Money and Power
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index
Errata edit
On page 127, Renshaw incorrectly lists "William McReynolds" as one of the justices on the United States Supreme Court during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. His name was James Clark McReynolds.
On page 129, Renshaw states that James Byrnes was "a New Deal Democrat from Georgia". James Byrnes was from South Carolina, not Georgia.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Profiles in Power. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Patrick Renshaw (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Longman
Country: Great Britain & USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0582438039
Page Count: 252
Publisher: Longman
Country: Great Britain & USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0582438039
Page Count: 252
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: E807 .R46 2004
- Dewey: 973.917092
Subjects edit
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › People, A-Z › ( R ) › Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Presidents & Heads of State
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Political
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century › Depression
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Leaders & Leadership
- Books › Nonfiction › Government › Federal Government
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