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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"All her life, Eleanor Roosevelt hoped to "leave some mark upon the world." She was a shy child who found joy in helping others. A passionate young adult who longed for adventure. An independent young woman who formed her own opinions. A trustworthy partner who worked tirelessly for change. So when her husband became president and she became first lady, Eleanor was ready to make her mark. With characteristic candor, compassion, and courage, she traversed...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Counsels students on how to better understand present-day economic dilemmas against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the thirty-second president's famous "First 100 Days," evaluating key reforms in a variety of areas.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the 32nd president and traces his privileged upbringing, the polio that cost him the use of his legs and his leadership during the Great Depression and World War Two.
12) Loving Eleanor
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1932 compaign, the women become deeply involved.
14) The gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the untold story of the partnership that defined a presidency
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration, Marguerite 'Missy' LeHand, FDR's de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history...until now.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the end of FDR's life shares insights into how he made his final policy decisions and pursued what mattered most to him, including the establishment of the United Nations, a reinvigoration of the New Deal, and a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
1940. In the wake of one of the most tumultuous Republican conventions ever, Willkie was an unexpected candidate for the presidency. Though he would go on to lose the election to FDR, Willkie was a man governed by principles and seldom allowed rigid categories to stand in his way. He created an unlikely alliance of supporters, including anti-big-government business leaders and black voters, who rightly felt excluded from New Deal benefits. Lewis shows...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In One Nation Under God, award-winning historian Kevin M. Kruse argues that the story of Christian America begins with the Great Depression, when a coalition of businessmen and religious leaders united in opposition to the New Deal. As Kruse shows, corporations from General Motors and Kraft Foods to J.C. Penney and Hilton Hotels, poured money into the coffers of conservative religious leaders, who in turn used those funds to attack FDR's New Deal...
18) The black cabinet: the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty in the South, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by white violence. But Roosevelt's victory created the opportunity for a group of African American intellectuals and activists to join his administration as racial affairs experts....
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York and Washington to Scotts Run, West Virginia, where impoverished...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided. In [this book], Bradley W. Hart uncovers the homegrown groups who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, and elevate the Nazi regime. Some of these friends were Americans...
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