Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide Victory and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal

Award-winning historian David Pietrusza's Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America, weaving an intricate tale of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots. It explores racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism, and the landslide referendum on FDR's New Deal policies in the 1936 presidential election. Pietrusza's account is based on an impressive collection of primary and secondary sources, providing an engrossing and authoritative account of an election, a president, and a nation at the crossroads.

Format: Hardback
Length: 480 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2022
Publisher: Diversion Books

Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US History, David Pietrusza's Roosevelt Sweeps Nation is a captivating panorama of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots. Set against the backdrop of the 1936 presidential election, the book explores the complex and often controversial issues of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism. It also delves into the landslide referendum on FDR's New Deal policies, which were a defining moment in American history. Pietrusza's book offers a fresh perspective on Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, challenging the conventional narrative. He presents a more intricate and surprising tale of a polarized nation, the most complex and calculating president of his time, and the transformation of American society, politics, and parties. With in-depth examinations of key figures such as Democratic US Senator Huey Long, newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, radio commentator Father Coughlin, the passage of Social Security, racism and anti-Semitism, American Socialism and Communism, and the Supreme Court's role in dismantling the New Deal, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation provides a vivid portrait of a dynamic Depression-Era America. Pietrusza's account is based on an extensive collection of primary and secondary sources, making it an authoritative and engaging read. His ability to weave together various threads of history into a compelling narrative makes this book a must-read for anyone interested in American political history.

Dimension: 228 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781635767773