The Coming of the New Deal: The Age of Roosevelt, 1933-1935

by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Overview

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 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.

“Monumental…authoritative…spirited…one of the major works in American historical literature.”—New York Times

 

“Impelling, an achievement as much in its sensitivity as in its scholarship…It is essential reading.”—Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780547527642
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	07/10/2020
Series:	The Age of Roosevelt , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	690
Sales rank:	360,981
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the author of thirty books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. Schlesinger was also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.