Nothing to Fear: FDRs Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created ModernAmerica
by By Cohen, Adam
Category: History , United States , 20th Century

Contemporary journalism and subsequent history agree that the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's term as US president in 1933 was a watershed that transformed country's economy and government. An editor at the New York Times, Cohen argues that he had no specific plans when he took office, and that the programs that became The New Deal were hammered out by him and five colleagues as they went along. He offers what he calls a collective biography of Raymond Moley, Frances Perkins, Lewis Douglas, and Henry Wallace. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)