Politics of Upheaval（ISBN=9780618340873）

The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr."s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDR's critics to denounce "that man in the White house." To his left were demagogues Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time, the New Deal seemed to lose its momentum. But in 1935 FDR rallied and produced a legislative record even more impressive than the Hundred Days of 1933 a set of statutes that transformed the social and economic landscape of American life. In 1936 FDR coasted to reelection on a landslide. Schlesinger has his usual touch with colorful personalities and draws a warmly sympathetic portrait of Alf M. Landon, the Republican candidate of 1936.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the author of sixteen books, is a renowned historian and social critic. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. He is also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal. He lives in New York City.

Foreword to
the Mariner Edition
Foreword
1 Prologue to Stalemate
I  THE THEOLOGY OF FERMENT
  2  The Rise of the Demagogues
  3  The Old Folks' Crusade
  4  The Messiah of the Rednecks
  5  The Dream of Fascism
  6  Revolt in the Old Northwest
  7  Utopia in the Far West
  8  The Melting Pot Boils Over
  9  Insurgency on Capitol Hill
  10  Radicalism: American Plan
  11  Radicalism: European Plan
  12  Growth of a Conspiracy
II   THE COMING OF THE SECOND NEW DEAL
  13  Ordeal by Indecision
  14  Roosevelt in Retreat
  15  The Death of NKA
  16  Breakthrough
  17  The Utilities on the Barricades
  18  Triumph and Tranquility
  19  The Battle of Relief

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III THE CRISIS OF THE CONSTITUTION

IV THE CAMPAIGN OF 1936

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