The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
The Defining Moment shows how Roosevelt used his famous "fear itself" speech and his first 100 days in office to lift the country from the despair and paralysis of the Great Depression and transform the American presidency. With its themes of a nation in crisis and a strong executive, The...
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The Defining Moment shows how Roosevelt used his famous "fear itself" speech and his first 100 days in office to lift the country from the despair and paralysis of the Great Depression and transform the American presidency. With its themes of a nation in crisis and a strong executive, The Defining Moment is not only an inspiring political story, but also a book that is pertinent to today's debates over both foreign and domestic affairs.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780743246019 (0743246012)
Publish date: May 8th 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 414
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
20th Century,
Politics,
American History,
Biography Memoir,
United States,
Presidents,
Us Presidents
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by o...
Those of us alive now have a difficult time understanding the degree of fear and uncertainty felt by people in 1933 when the banks were closing and they had no idea what the future held. One had to live through the time to know how it felt. Even then, some people soon forgot and started complainin...
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