The People and the President
Subtitle: America's Conversation with FDR
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: June 13, 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780807055106
Subjects: Presidents; United States; History: American; History; United States - 20th Century/Depression; History - General History; History - U.S.; Sources; Social conditions; Politics and government; United States - 20th Century/WWII; History / United States / 20th Century; Roosevelt, Franklin D; Correspondence; United States - 20th Century; 1933-1945; American letters
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Part one : The nadir : 1933-1936.; title: Closing the banks; title: A New Deal; title: The first hundred days; title: "Relief, recovery, reform and reconstruction"; title: Order out of chaos; title: Protecting the weak; title: "An orderly economic democracy"; title: Part two : The continuing crisis : 1937-1938.; title: "Packing" the Supreme Court; title: Balancing the "human budget"; title: Combatting renewed depression; title: "Purging" the Democratic Party; title: Part three : Looking abroad : 1939-1941.; title: "True neutrality"; title: "The approaching storm"; title: "The great arsenal of democracy"; title: An unlimited national emergency; title: The attack on the USS Greer; title: Pearl Harbor; title: Part four : America at war : 1942-1945.; title: "The battle ground of civilization"; title: "Hard work and sorrow and blood"; title: "The folks back home"; title: The coal strike; title: The GI Bill; title: An economic bill of rights; title: Planning for peace; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix : A note on the Fireside Chats