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  • Lou Henry Hoover

    Activist First Lady

    by Nancy Beck Young ...
    Series series Modern First Ladies
    Although overshadowed by her higher-profile successors, Lou Henry Hoover was in many ways the nation’s first truly modern First Lady. She was the first to speak on the radio and give regular interviews. She was the first to be a public political persona in her own right. And, although the White House press corps saw in her “old-fashioned wifehood,” she very much foreshadowed the “new woman” of the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • M.E.Sharpe Library of Franklin D.Roosevelt Studies: v. 1: Franklin D.Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture

    by Nancy Beck Young ...
    How did Americans respond to the economic catastrophe of 1929? In what ways did the social and cultural responses of the American people inform the politics of the period? How did changes in political beliefs alter cultural activities? This volume examines the presidency of FDR through a very distinctive set of lenses: the representation of FDR in film and popular culture, discussions of New Deal ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Two Suns of the Southwest

    Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism

    by Nancy Beck Young ...
    Series series American Presidential Elections
    Over time the presidential election of 1964 has come to be seen as a generational shift, a defining moment in which Americans deliberated between two distinctly different visions for the future. In its juxtaposition of these divergent visions, Two Suns of the Southwest is the first full account of this critical election and its legacy for US politics.The 1964 election, in Nancy Beck Young’s ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The M.E.Sharpe Library of Franklin D.Roosevelt Studies: v. 2

    Franklin D.Roosevelt and Congress - The New Deal and it's Aftermath

    by Nancy Beck Young, William D. Pederson, Byron W. Daynes ...
    This book assesses contrasting interpretations of President Roosevelt's relations with the Nye Committee. It explores the complexity confronting Rayburn in weighing the factors that influenced his actions during the New Deal portion of his near half century in Congress. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    A New History of the Great Depression

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  • The Coming of the New Deal

    The Age of Roosevelt, 1933–1935

    by Arthur M. Schlesinger ...
    Series Book 2 - The Age of Roosevelt
    Volume two of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's Age of Roosevelt series describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first tumultuous years in the White House.Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression, FDR told the American people that they have nothing to fear but fear itself. The conventional wisdom having failed, he tried unorthodox remedies to avert economic collapse. His first ... Read more

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  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    by Robert S. McElvaine ...
    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

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  • The S Word

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  • New Deal or Raw Deal?

    How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

    by Burton W. Folsom Jr. ...
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  • The Crisis of the Old Order 1919–1933

    The Age of Roosevelt, 1919–1933

    by Arthur M. Schlesinger ...
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  • Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

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  • FDR's Folly

    How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

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