Roosevelt's Second ACT: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299737181 (1299737188)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 393
Edition language: English
Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
Though ostensibly a history of the presidential election of 1940, Richard Moe's book is essentially the account of a decision -- specifically, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's decision to go against nearly a century and a half of American political tradition and run for a third term. It was an incredibly...