num_pages: 304
description: The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history -- and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatismAs historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War  FDR laid out coherent far-ranging plans for the New Deal in the months prior to his inauguration. Meanwhile still-President Hoover worried about FDR's abilities and afraid of the president-elect's policies became the first comprehensive critic of the New Deal. Thus even before FDR took office both the principles of the welfare state and reaction against it had already taken form.Winter War reveals how in the months before the hundred days FDR and Hoover battled over ideas and shaped the divisive politics of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal
publisher: Basic Books