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Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd) 1890-1946 Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair) 1874-1952 New Deal, 1933-1939 Perkins, Frances 1880-1965 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Friends and associates United States Economic policy 1933-1945 United States Politics and government 1933-1945 United States Social conditions 1933-1945 Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard) 1888-1965Leebaert, Derek
Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 LEECohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 CohFolsom, Burton W.
Summary: A revisionist perspective on FDR's presidency and the New Deal argues that such government programs as social security, minimum wage, and farm subsidies didn't work in the 1930s and do not work now, in a critical report that traces many modern problems to the FDR administration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2008