Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm
Reihe: Routledge Historical Biographies
ISBN: 978-0-415-66016-7
Verlag: CRC Press
A new biography of one of the 20th century's most prominent figures and a fresh appraisal of his career for a new generation of students and other interested readers.
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Introduction (6,000 words)
- Historiographical sketch
- Changing perceptions of FDR from his own times to the present
- Summarise key themes and controversies
Chapter 1 – A privileged ascent, 1882-1920 (10,000 words)
- Family, upbringing, education
- Marriage and relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt
- FDR as NY state senator and as Assistant Secretary to the Navy
- Defeat in 1920 vice-presidential campaign
Chapter 2 – Rebuilding, 1920-1929 (7,500 words)
- Polio; FDR’s response to his paralysis; historians’ treatment of this issue
- Rebuilding the upstate Democratic Party in the 1920s; FDR and Al Smith
- 1928 gubernatorial (and presidential) campaign
Chapter 3 – Governing the Empire State, 1929-1933 (7,500 words)
- The scope and limits of FDR’s progressivism as Governor of NY State; relief, welfare and conservation policies as precursor to New Deal
- 1932 presidential campaign
- Roosevelt and Hoover: A study in contrasts
Chapter 4 – The politics of emergency, 1933 (7,500 words)
- Banking crisis; financial regulation; FDR’s approach to economic questions
- Handling of media; use of radio (fireside chats); press conferences; political communications strategy; FDR and Congress;
- recognition of the Soviet Union; London Economic Conference; approach to international issues in early New Deal
Chapter 5 – Recovery and reform, 1933-36 (10,000 words)
- Agriculture and industry
- Relief and welfare; social security; grassroots as well as elite pressures
- Organised labour; Wagner Act; CIO and pressure from below
- Conservation / environment, and regional development; CCC, TVA
Chapter 6 –FDR and the New Deal coalition (7,500)
- The 1936 campaign and landslide; New Deal or Roosevelt coalition?
- The changing electoral landscape of American politics
- FDR and his political enemies
Chapter 7 – Constitutional conflict and economic crisis, 1936-38 (7,500 words)
- The court fight; the New Deal and the Constitution
- The ‘Roosevelt Recession’; the purge campaign and the 1938 midterms; congressional conservatism; executive reorganisation
- FDR and the question of neutrality; foreign policy toward Europe and the Far East.
Chapter 8 –The politics of intervention, 1938-41(7,500 words)
- The great debate over (non-)intervention; popularity and strength of opposition
- FDR’s leadership as exercise in political tutelage
- The political economy of the late New Deal; the third term controversy and 1940 presidential campaign
Chapter 9 – Wartime statesman, 1941-45 (12,500 words)
- US politics during WWII; the struggle to defend remaining New Deal programs against their critics
- FDR’s foreign policy style; the nature of his personal relationships with Churchill & Stalin
- FDR as military strategist; FDR at Casablanca, Tehran & Yalta
- The fourth term campaign; FDR’s concealment of his ailing health
- FDR and the Holocaust
Chapter 10 – Roosevelt and American democracy at home and abroad, 1941-45 (7,500 words)
- FDR and Japanese-American ‘internment’; FDR and African American civil rights; March on Washington
- Four Freedoms; economic Bill of Rights; liberalism during WWII
- FDR’s conception of a new international order: Atlantic Charter, Bretton Woods, UN Charter
Conclusion
- FDR (and ER) and the American people
- Emphasise re-orientation of US liberalism; altered expectations and perceptions of government; Eleanor Roosevelt’s post-FDR career
- Long-range perspective on the trajectory of the New Deal/Roosevelt coalition
- Persistence of controversies over size and proper role of government in economic crises; Pearl Harbor, Holocaust, Yalta.
