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FDR and the new deal for beginners / Paul Buhle ; comics by Sabrina Jones ; afterword by Harvey Pekar

Author
Buhle, Paul, 1944-
Published
Danbury, Conn. : For Beginners, 2010.
London : Turnaround
Physical Description
xi, 146 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
Jones, Sabrina, 1960-

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Contents
Chapter 1 -- Before he was President -- A Lonely Member of the Gentry -- The Hudson Valley Boy -- The Family, the Law and the Democrats -- Another Mr. Roosevelt Goes to Washington -- Living with Disability -- Social Headaches in the Aspirin Age -- Governor Roosevelt -- The Crash of 1929 -- Wall street Crash, American Crisis -- Happy Days -- Fdr The Presidential Candidate -- Victory! -- ...And Hoover Leaves a Mess Behind -- Chapter 2 -- Crisis -- Meeting the Crisis With a New Deal -- A Nation Wants Self-Confidence Back -- Good Times? Beer And Bread, At Least -- Roosevelt's Tree Army -- Roosevelt The Lonely Leader -- Public Energy #1. Eleanor Roosevelt -- Problems And Divisions -- Americans Get Radical -- Farm Holidays And General Strikes -- The President And His Enemies -- Europe In Crisis -- The Ghost Of The Monroe Doctrine -- European Debts -- Chapter 3 -- Pressure from the left -- Turning Point -- Opposition To The New Deal-From The Grass Roots Of America's Country Clubs -- Populism, The Real (King Fish) Thing -- Labor's Giant Step -- The Peculiarity Of American Reform -- Henry Wallace, The Farmers' Man -- The Popular Front Against Fascism -- Antiwar Moods -- The Eleanor Factor, Continued -- A New Deal For Indians -- The New Public Culture -- Monuments Of The New Deal -- The Face Of American Racism / J. Edgar Hoover -- Chapter 4 -- WPA -- New Deal At The Highwater Mark -- The Real (New) Deal -- Court Packing -- Labor Consolidates Strengths -- The "Roosevelt Recession" -- At The Feet Of Lincoln -- Race And The South -- Relief And The Public Vision -- Health Care -- New Deal Failures -- The Approach Of War -- The Approach Of The 1940 Election -- Chapter 5 -- Doctor Win The War -- The War And The President -- The War And The Soviets -- Race And The War -- The New Deal Completed? -- The Arsenal Of Democracy -- FDR, Churchill, Stalin -- Yalta -- Shadows Of The Cold War -- Henry Wallace, Soul Of The New Deal -- Harry Truman And The Party Bosses -- Last Days At Warm Springs -- Lost Hopes -- Afterword -- FDR As Seen from 2010 -- Harvey Pekar On FDR's New Deal.
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ISBN
9781934389508 (pbk.)
1934389501 (pbk.)
Note
Chiefly text with some comic sequences.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 144).
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