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Author Polenberg, Richard.

Title The era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 : a brief history with documents / Richard Polenberg.

Imprint Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

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 Axe Special Collections Rosen  973.917 P758e 2000    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiv, 251 p. ; 21 cm.
Series The Bedford series in history and culture
Bedford series in history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index.
Summary Attempts to recapture the turbulence of an era when modern America emerged from the Great Depression and World War II, and includes selected documents which offer a way to understand the changes which occurred in America during that era.
Contents Part 1. Introduction: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Liberalism -- FDR: The Paradox -- Hyde Park to Washington -- New Deal, 1933-1936 -- Waning of Reform, 1937-1940 -- Liberals at War, 1941-1945 -- FDR: The Legacy -- Part 2. Documents -- 1. FDR as President -- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- First Press Conference, March 8, 1933 / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1935 / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936 / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937 / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Speeches on Conservation and the Environment, 1936-1937 / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 2. New Deal -- National Labor Relations Act, February 21, 1935 / Robert F. Wagner -- Social Security Act, September 2, 1935 / Frances Perkins -- Crisis in Agriculture, September 12, 1936 / John Steinbeck -- Federal Relief, September 19, 1936 / Harry Hopkins -- Federal Theatre Project, May 11, 1938 / Hallie Flanagan -- 3. Eleanor Roosevelt and American Women -- Women in the Labor Force, June 16, 1938 / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Women and the New Deal, April 8, 1936 / Molly Dewson -- Women in Politics, March-April 1940 / Eleanor Roosevelt -- 4. Documenting the Depression: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange -- Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta, 1936 -- Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 -- Mexican Migratory Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937 -- Small Independent Gas Station during Cotton Strike, Kern City, California, November 1938 -- 5. Right and Left Face -- Challenge to Liberty, 1934 / Herbert Hoover -- New Deal vs. Democracy, July 15, 1936 / American Liberty League -- EPIC Plan, 1934 / Upton Sinclair -- National Union for Social Justice, November 11, 1934 / Father Charles E. Coughlin -- Share Our Wealth, May 23, 1935 / Huey P. Long -- 6. Race, Ethnicity, and Reform -- Songs of the Mexican Migration: Deported [Deportados], 1933 -- Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, 1940 / Selden Menefee, Orin C. Cassmore -- NAACP and Segregation, January-February 1934 / W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White -- March on Washington, November 1942 / A. Philip Randolph -- A New Deal for American Indians, 1938 / John Collier 151 -- Voice of a Navajo Indian, April 10, 1934 / J.C. Morgan -- 7. Constitutional Revolution -- United States v. Butler, January 6, 1936 / Owen Roberts, Harlan Fiske Stone -- Unpacking the Court, February 13, 1937 / Robert M. La Follette Jr. -- A Greatly Dangerous Precedent, July 19, 1937 / Herbert H. Lehman -- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, March 29, 1937 / Charles Evans Hughes, George Sutherland -- Helvering v. Davis, May 24, 1937 / Benjamin N. Cardozo -- 8. Morale in Wartime: A Portfolio of Propaganda Posters -- United We Win, 1943 / U.S. War Manpower Commission -- Do the Job HE Left Behind, 1943 / U.S. Employment Service -- Lookout Monks! Here's Your Plane Warning! 1942 / Packer Aircraft -- Buy Victory Bonds, 1945 / U.S. Treasury Department -- 9. "Good War"? -- Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, April 30, 1942 / Western Defense Command -- Footprints: Poetry of the American Relocation Camp Experience, ca. 1942-1944 -- Korematsu v. United States, December 18, 1944 / Hugo Black, Frank Murphy -- Debate about the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, May 20, 1943 / Pearl S. Buck, A. Leonard Allen -- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, June 14, 1943 / Robert Jackson, Felix Frankfurter -- Report to the Secretary [of the Treasury] on then Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews, January 13, 1944 / Randolph Paul -- Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz, July-November 1944 / John W. Pehle, John J. McCloy -- Race, Religion, and Prejudice, May 11, 1942 / Eleanor Roosevelt -- An Economic Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944 / Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Subject United States -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Sources.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
ISBN 0312133103
9780312133108
0312227647 (hardcover)
9780312227647 (hardcover)

 
    
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