num_pages: 688
description: The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’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 hundred days restored national morale, and his New Dealers filled Washington with new approaches to recovery and reform. Combining idealistic ends with realistic means, Roosevelt proposed to humanize, redeem, and rescue capitalism. The Coming of the New Deal, written with Schlesinger’s customary verve, is a gripping account of critical years in the history of the republic.
language: English
title: The Coming of the New Deal 1933-35
titlecomplete: The Coming of the New Deal 1933-35 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol 2)
characters: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
genres: Biography, Politics, Nonfiction, Presidents, American History, Economics, Us Presidents, History, Government, 20th Century
ratings_count: 230
series: The Age of Roosevelt
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Mariner Books