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FDR - Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America (Hardcover)
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FDR - Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America (Hardcover)
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One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and African
American voters that underwrote the Democratic Party's national
ascendancy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his four terms, he
promoted the New Deal - the greatest reform programme in US history
- to meet the challenges of the Great Depression, led the United
States to the brink of victory in the Second World War, and
established the modern presidency as the driving force of American
politics and government. Iwan Morgan takes a fresh look at FDR,
showing how his leadership enabled the United States of America to
become the most successful country of the twentieth century. This
astute and original assessment of a highly consequential presidency
explains how Roosevelt enhanced the governing capacity of his
office, promoted a constitutional revolution through his dealings
with the Supreme Court, and forged a new intimacy between the
president and the American people through his genius for political
communication. It also demonstrates the significance of his
organizational and strategic leadership as commander-in-chief in
America's greatest foreign war, his role in holding together the
US-British-Soviet Grand Alliance against the Axis powers, and his
pioneering development of the national-security presidency that
sought to promote a lasting post-war peace for the world. In fluid,
immensely readable prose, Morgan focuses on the ways in which FDR
transformed the presidency into an institution of domestic and
international leadership to establish the modern ideal of the
office as an assertive, democratic executive charged with meeting
the challenges facing the US at home and abroad.
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