Roosevelt sweeps nation : FDR's 1936 landslide & the triumph of the liberal ideal
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.917/PIETRUSZA,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York] : Diversion Books, 2022
EDITION
First Diversion books edition
DESCRIPTION
xx, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781635767773, 1635767776 :, 1635767776, 9781635767773
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Franklin is on his own now" -- "Try something" -- "One bullet" -- "Five negroes on my place..." -- "A great pity" -- "Common, ignorant, and half-tight" -- "Methodist picnic people" -- "A voice made for promises" -- "Shirt mania" -- "Heil Hearst" -- "The old deal" -- "Anno Domini Father Divine" -- "Dumb-bells, freaks, rubes and hicks" -- "It's myself" -- "20,000 morons" -- "Innocuous as a watermelon... boiled in a bathtub" -- "Keep on running" -- "The very essence of un-Americanism" -- "I welcome their hatred" -- "Send for a priest"
An original and authoritative account of Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide