Introduction : the clash of contemporaries -- Part I. Historians look at FDR -- Roosevelt through European eyes / Isaiah Berlin -- Selling the President to the people / Daniel J. Boorstin -- The Roosevelt reputation / Richard Hofstadter -- Part II. The evolution of the New Deal -- The First New Deal / Basil Rauch -- An unaccustomed road / Edgar E. Robinson -- Lost directions / Raymond Moley -- The New Deal in review, 1936-1940 / The editors of the New Republic -- Part III. The New Deal : what was it? -- The New Deal in retrospect / Rexford G. Tugwell -- An epitome of characteristics / Charles A. Beard and George H.E. Smith -- Roosevelt panaceas / Benjamin Stolberg and Warren Jay Vinton -- Sources of the New Deal / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- Caesarism comes to America / Amaury de Riencourt -- Revolt of the city / Samuel Lubell.