The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume III (Vol 3) (The Age of Roosevelt, 3)

ISBN: 0618340874

Author: Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.

Condition: New

The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelts first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDRs critics to denounce that man in the White house. To his left were demagogues - Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order - ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time, the New Deal seemed to lose its momentum. But in 1935 FDR rallied and produced a legislative record even more impressive than the Hundred Days of 1933 - a set of statutes that transformed the social and economic landscape of American life. In 1936 FDR coasted to reelection on a landslide. Schlesinger has his usual touch with colorful personalities and draws a warmly sympathetic portrait of Alf M. Landon, the Republican candidate of 1936.