The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936, the Age of Roosevelt, Volume III

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 - 749 páginas

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. Roosevelt's first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDR's 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.

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Prologue to Stalemate
1
THE THEOLOGY OF FERMENT
13
The Rise of the Demagogues
15
The Old Folks Crusade
29
The Messiah of the Rednecks
42
The Dream of Fascism
69
Revolt in the Old Northwest
96
Utopia in the Far West
109
Power for the People
362
The Ideology of the Second New Deal
385
The Politics of the Second New Deal
409
The Roosevelt Coalition
424
THE CRISIS OF THE CONSTITUTION
445
The Seat of Judgment
447
The Supreme Court Takes the Offensive
468
Storm over the Constitution
484

The Melting Pot Boils Over
125
Insurgency on Capitol Hill
134
American Plan
147
European Plan
162
Growth of a Conspiracy
181
THE COMING OF THE SECOND NEW DEAL
209
Ordeal by Indecision
211
Roosevelt in Retreat
242
The Death of NRA
263
Breakthrough
291
The Utilities on the Barricades
302
Triumph and Tranquility
325
The Battle of Relief
343
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1936
497
Shadows Ahead
499
Dissidence among the Democrats
515
Revival among the Republicans
524
Mumblings in the Night
548
The Democrats on the Brink
571
The Coalition in Action
586
Saving the American Way of Life
601
The People Speak
626
Trustee for Those in Every Country
645
Notes
659
Index
717
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ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. He was also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

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