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FDR : transforming the presidency and renewing America / Iwan Morgan.
By: Morgan, Iwan W [author.]
.Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022Description: xiii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780755637164; 9780755637195; 9780755637171.Other title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Transforming the presidency and renewing America.Subject(s): Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 | Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945DDC classification: 973.917 Summary: "One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and African-American voters that underwrote the Democratic Party's national ascendancy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his four terms, he promoted the New Deal - the greatest reform programme in US history - to meet the challenges of the Great Depression, led the United States to the brink of victory in the Second World War, and established the modern presidency as the driving force of American politics and government. Iwan Morgan takes a fresh look at FDR, showing how his leadership enabled the United States of America to become the most successful country of the twentieth century."-- Taken from dust jacket.
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| 973.91 SAN Kennedy and Great Britain : the special relationship / | 973.916 RIO The greatest story never told : Winston Churchill and the crash of 1929 / | 973.917 KAT Fear itself : | 973.917 MOR FDR : transforming the presidency and renewing America / | 973.918 FRI Nightmare in red : | 973.918092 BRA The general vs. the president : | 973.92 FRI That used to be us : what went wrong with America - and how it can come back / |
"One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and African-American voters that underwrote the Democratic Party's national ascendancy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his four terms, he promoted the New Deal - the greatest reform programme in US history - to meet the challenges of the Great Depression, led the United States to the brink of victory in the Second World War, and established the modern presidency as the driving force of American politics and government. Iwan Morgan takes a fresh look at FDR, showing how his leadership enabled the United States of America to become the most successful country of the twentieth century."-- Taken from dust jacket.