The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

"Alter addressees the fraught three-odd-months that newly inaugurated President Franklin Roosevelt had to push through an ambitious package of social and financial programs before congressional resistance solidified. Roosevelt was no stranger to a bully pulpit. Roosevelt accepted a broad range of progressive programs that his liberal brain trust put together: unemployment relief, extensive public-works programs, old-age insurance and a program to formulate minimum-wage guidelines and other labor reforms. He withheld 60,000 political patronage jobs customarily shared out to Congress until after the Hundred Days, a most efficient form of keeping legislators in line. Therein lies a key to understanding FDR's character, and his knack for getting what he wanted; the president was a born Machiavellian. FDR kept his own democratic values intact, even as right-wing opponents called him "Stalin Delano Roosevelt.".. A few corners turned down, now righted, one telephone number on rfep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped ($29.95) dust jacket is in perfect, pristine condition. VERY GOOD/AS NEW. . Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xiv, 415 pp Title: The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope Author Name: Alter, Jonathan Edition: 1st Edition. First Printing ISBN Number: 0743246004 ISBN-13: 9780743246002 Location Published: NY, Simon & Schuster: 2006 Binding: Hard Cover Book Condition: Near Fine in As New dust jacket Item: 2.10 lbs Categories: Biography & Memoir, Biography, Politics, Business, Law & Government, US Presidents Seller ID: 29494 Keywords: franklin delano roosevelt fdr politics us history government us economic policy new deal economics elections