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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York and attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. He followed the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, and entered public service through toon meer politics, as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910 and President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920. In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, Roosevelt was stricken with poliomyelitis. He fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention, he appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928, Roosevelt became Governor of New York, and was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. In his first "hundred days" in office, he proposed, and Congress enacted, a program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. By 1935 the Nation had somewhat recovered, but businessmen and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program. They were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed. In 1936 he was re-elected by a large margin. Feeling he was armed with popular support, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy. Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy. He also sought, through neutrality legislation, to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he sent Great Britain all possible aid, short of actual military involvement. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war. Roosevelt felt that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the United States and Russia, and he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which international difficulties could be settled. As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while in Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Great Speeches (1999) 144 exemplaren
Fireside Chats (1995) 132 exemplaren
Looking Forward (1933) 64 exemplaren
On Our Way (1934) 14 exemplaren
The President's Mystery Plot (1935) 13 exemplaren
Il discorso del New Deal (1995) 8 exemplaren
State of the Union Addresses (2012) 3 exemplaren
The President's Mystery Story (1935) 3 exemplaren
The sunny side of FDR (1973) 3 exemplaren
Links von der Mitte (1952) 3 exemplaren
Por qué nos armamos 2 exemplaren
F.D.R., his personal letters (1947) 2 exemplaren
Comment j'ai vaincu la crise (2014) 1 exemplaar
The Classic Martini 1 exemplaar
Atlantic charter 1 exemplaar
Combats pour demain 1 exemplaar
The battle of 1776 1 exemplaar
CHAMPION CAMPAIGNER (1952) 1 exemplaar

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This guy was a good speaker! Not sure about his actual actions, but the eloquent ones are usually well-liked.
 
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BooksbyStarlight | Oct 25, 2022 |
The power and genius of FDR as he spoke to an guided a troubled nation
 
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Daniel464 | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 23, 2022 |
I'm not reviewing this on the quality of its writing, or the depths of its politics. These were eight of the radio talks given by the President of the United States at a time when people listened and looked to him for leadership. The first was in 1933, at a time when the banking infrastructure was collapsing and the country was in a panic. As I read it, my first thought was that he sounded condescending, but as I read further, I realized that it wasn't condescension, it was that soothing calm voice one uses when speaking to a badly wounded animal.

I may or may not agree with all of his policies, but I am interested to know what they were, how they were presented, how they evolved and were implemented, and whether or not they worked. My knowledge of these things is very superficial and I feel that these eight Fireside Chats are the tip of the iceberg.
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MrsLee | 1 andere bespreking | Aug 18, 2017 |
we have vols. 1-3, January 1933-January 1937
 
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