Roosevelt Sweeps Nation

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Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is written by David Pietrusza and published by Diversion Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1635767784 (ISBN 10) and 9781635767780 (ISBN 13).

From "America's preeminent presidential historian . . . a thoughtful, highly entertaining portrait of Roosevelt's thrilling 1936 campaign and victory" (Bob Batchelor, award-winning cultural historian). Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US History Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation; of America's most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves. With in-depth examinations of rabble-rousing Democratic US Senator Huey Long and his assassination before he was able to challenge FDR in '36; powerful, but widely hated, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, who blasted FDR's "Raw Deal"; wildly popular, radical radio commentator Father Coughlin; the steamrolled passage of Social Security and backlash against it; the era's racism and anti-Semitism; American Socialism and Communism; and a Supreme Court seemingly bent on dismantling the New Deal altogether, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America. Crafting his account from an impressive and unprecedented collection of primary and secondary sources, Pietrusza has produced an engrossing, original, and authoritative account of an election, a president, and a nation at the crossroads. The nation's stakes were high . . . and the parallels hauntingly akin to today's dangerously strife-ridden political and culture wars. "It has been many a moon since I had as much fun [as I did] reading Roosevelt Sweeps Nation." —George F. Will, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist