The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
Format: kindle
ASIN: B000N2HBLQ
Pages no: 308
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...