The Age Of Roosevelt: The Coming Of The New Deal
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Chipping to jacket near spine, corners, and folds. Still structural. Binding has some self wear, otherwise fine. Pages have light foxing and tanning on first few pages / end pages. Otherwise bulk of book pages clean.
The second volume in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s monumental The Age of Roosevelt series, The Coming of the New Deal is a sweeping work of narrative history that chronicles the dramatic first years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the bold legislative revolution that reshaped American government. Written with the authority of a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the propulsive energy of a master storyteller, it details the frantic hundred days of 1933 during which Roosevelt and his Brain Trust dismantled the old economic order and constructed an entirely new framework for federal responsibility. Schlesinger presents the architects of the New Deal — figures like Harry Hopkins, Henry Wallace, and Raymond Moley — as complex, driven individuals navigating a nation on the brink of collapse, capturing both the idealism and the fierce internal battles that defined the era. The prose is vivid and authoritative, illustrating how the collision of competing ideologies, political pressures, and economic catastrophe forged policies that continue to define the relationship between the American citizen and the state. A landmark of twentieth-century political history, this volume remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the United States was fundamentally transformed during one of its most turbulent decades.
Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Heinemann
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Chipping to jacket near spine, corners, and folds. Still structural. Binding has some self wear, otherwise fine. Pages have light foxing and tanning on first few pages / end pages. Otherwise bulk of book pages clean.
The second volume in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s monumental The Age of Roosevelt series, The Coming of the New Deal is a sweeping work of narrative history that chronicles the dramatic first years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the bold legislative revolution that reshaped American government. Written with the authority of a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the propulsive energy of a master storyteller, it details the frantic hundred days of 1933 during which Roosevelt and his Brain Trust dismantled the old economic order and constructed an entirely new framework for federal responsibility. Schlesinger presents the architects of the New Deal — figures like Harry Hopkins, Henry Wallace, and Raymond Moley — as complex, driven individuals navigating a nation on the brink of collapse, capturing both the idealism and the fierce internal battles that defined the era. The prose is vivid and authoritative, illustrating how the collision of competing ideologies, political pressures, and economic catastrophe forged policies that continue to define the relationship between the American citizen and the state. A landmark of twentieth-century political history, this volume remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the United States was fundamentally transformed during one of its most turbulent decades.