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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
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ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen 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. He 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.

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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 10 2020
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  • James Gallen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading For Any Student Of The New Deal
    Reviewed in Canada on April 13, 2008
    "The Coming of the New Deal" is the second in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s trilogy, "The Age of Roosevelt". Covering the period of 1933-1934, it is a worthy successor to its predecessor, "The Crisis of the Old Order" (see my 鶹 review).

    This volume is organized by the various challenges faced. Separate chapters are allotted to agriculture, industrial planning, public works, the labor movement and the coalescence of opposition to FDR. The book ends with an assessment or Roosevelt's leadership style.

    I read this in preparation for a continuing ed class on the New Deal and found it to be very helpful.

    The New Deal was immediately faced with impending crises, including the imminent collapse of the banking system and a real risk of social revolution. The controversial remedies chosen to combat these are covered in some detail. This book provides the reader with an understanding of many of the New Deal projects, including the NRA, the PWA, CCC and the agricultural plans, which included the destruction of piglets and the plowing up of crops in times of famine. His initiatives on soil conservation and conservation mirrored those of his role model, Theodore Roosevelt.

    The opponents of FDR, Al Smith, Huey Long and Fr. Coughlin are presented in their goals, tactics and the effect they had on the New Deal and the country.

    FDR's political efforts in the 1934 election are examined and assessed. For all his success in building a Democratic majority, he was less successful in building a liberal majority. I was surprised to find that FDR had one of the highest veto totals up to his time.

    The personnel with whom he dealt with including the cabinet, Vice-President John Nance Garner and Joseph Kennedy provide interesting insights into other prominent characters of his era.

    Analyses of FDR and his practices by Schlesinger and others, including Oliver Wendell Holmes give the reader a depth of perspective in judging the most loved and hated of American leaders.

    "The Coming of The New Deal" provides the reader with an in depth study of a crucial two years in American history. It is clearly written by a liberal and, to some extent, the bias shows. Despite that, this book is not an unmitigated paean of Roosevelt and does, I believe, convey a reliable record of the times. It is must reading for any student of the New Deal Era.
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  • Snake
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2024
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    Probably the best book written about Roosevelt and that period of time. It is so thorough and so enjoyable to read.
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  • Liam Blank
    5.0 out of 5 stars A view of the past gives a sneek preview of the future.
    Reviewed in Australia on October 29, 2015
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    This is Volume Two of a series, in which Volume One describes how Roosevelt comes to be President-elect. Volume Two opens with Roosevelt arriving at the White House, and swinging into action for his famous 100 Days. Written in a terse style, Schlesinger covers every rivetting moment of these 100 Days and the three years that follows, with insightful pen portraits of all of the main characters involved, and detailed explanations of all the key decisions taken.

    To my considerable astonishment, I found this book at least as illuminating of current political debates as of past ones. Suddenly, I see the various campaign speeches of Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton, each as I write contending for Presidential nominations, as invoking arguments that have been around for hundreds of years, and how they played out when fully trialled in the 1920's and 1930's.

    All in all, one of the most thoroughly satisfactory books I have read in recent years.
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  • Allan M. Green
    5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable history of Depression America
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2019
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    Schlesinger writes engagingly of the personalities, the politics and the historical events which shaped America in the depression years. His grasp of economic facts and the emergence of an understanding of the need for government to employ deficit spending to support demand is masterful. But he also presents the alternative and competing economic ideologies--both domestic and foreign--which influenced politics in the thirties. Knowledge of this history provides helpful context for understanding that contemporary political and social debate is a continuation of the long-running battle to define the role of government in the American economy.
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  • Robert E. Palmatier
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great product, speedy delivery!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2023
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    I saved a bunch by buying used; the quality of the book received was excellent. Thank you!
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  • Mary S
    5.0 out of 5 stars I'm a New Deal junkie - I had found another ...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2014
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    I'm a New Deal junkie - I had found another in the trilogy at a used book sale and bought it and that made me look for this one. These are first hand accounts told to A. Schlessinger, Jr. This kind of "memory" isn't available anymore. This isn't a light book - it's densely packed with information and at times assumes a level of knowledge by the reader that they may or may not have.
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