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Books : The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.917092
EAN: 9780743246002
ISBN: 0743246004
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: May 02, 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This is the story of a political miracle -- the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft of a master storyteller, Jonathan Alter brings us closer than ever before to the Roosevelt magic. Facing the gravest crisis since the Civil War, FDR used his cagey political instincts and ebullient temperament in the storied first Hundred Days of his presidency to pull off an astonishing conjuring act that lifted the country and saved both democracy and capitalism.
Who was this man? To revive the nation when it felt so hopeless took an extraordinary display of optimism and self-confidence. Alter shows us how a snobbish and apparently lightweight young aristocrat was forged into an incandescent leader by his domineering mother; his independent wife; his eccentric top adviser, Louis Howe; and his ally-turned-bitter-rival, Al Smith, the Tammany Hall street fighter FDR had to vanquish to complete his preparation for the presidency.
"Old Doc Roosevelt" had learned at Warm Springs, Georgia, how to lift others who suffered from polio, even if he could not cure their paralysis, or his own. He brought the same talents to a larger stage. Derided as weak and unprincipled by pundits, Governor Roosevelt was barely nominated for president in 1932. As president-elect, he escaped assassination in Miami by inches, then stiffed President Herbert Hoover's efforts to pull him into cooperating with him to deal with a terrifying crisis. In the most tumultuous and dramatic presidential transition in history, the entire banking structure came tumbling down just hours before FDR's legendary "only thing we have to fear is fear itself" Inaugural Address.
In a major historical find, Alter unearths the draft of a radio speech in which Roosevelt considered enlisting a private army of American Legion veterans on his first day in office. He did not. Instead of circumventing Congress and becoming the dictator so many thought they needed, FDR used his stunning debut to experiment. He rescued banks, put men to work immediately, and revolutionized mass communications with pioneering press conferences and the first Fireside Chat. As he moved both right and left, Roosevelt's insistence on "action now" did little to cure the Depression, but he began to rewrite the nation's social contract and lay the groundwork for his most ambitious achievements, including Social Security.
From one of America's most respected journalists, rich in insights and with fresh documentation and colorful detail, this thrilling story of presidential leadership -- of what government is for -- resonates through the events of today. It deepens our understanding of how Franklin Delano Roosevelt restored hope and transformed America.
The Defining Moment will take its place among our most compelling works of political history.
Rating:
- Warts and All
The Defining Moment is extremely relevant to the current period, the transition between Presidents Bush and Obama. The parallels are impressive: pressure for the President-elect to start acting, vast economic problems, and even an international economic conference.
Alter demonstrates that FDR was not the messiah, but he does so without vilifying and blaming him for prolonging the depression. FDR got a lot right and he got a lot wrong, but the fact that he kept trying with his forceful ... Read More
Rating:
- Thank You Jonathan Alter
Thank you, Jonathan Alter for writing such a compelling study of great leadership. Thank you, also for including such influential figures and accomplished women as Lorena Hickok and Frances Perkins. You are not just an historian; you are an herstorian as well.
Rating: - Masterful portrait of FDR's rise to president and his first '100 Days'
Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek, and frequent contributor at MSNBC has written an excellent book about the rise and early presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt entitled 'The Defining Moment.' In concise yet articulate chapters Alter paints a compelling portrait of FDR, ther president who took the helm at what was, up until that point, the direst financial and societal crisis the nation had seen perhaps since the Civil War, and certainly in the 20th century.
Now known as 'The ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent and Very Well Written
The book is well written, well documented and very interesting. It is factual, and easy to understand. I am a Historian and have found this book well above average. I highly reccomend this for reading both alone and in classrooms.
Rating:
- Is this guy beig paid by the word?
Ideally, an historical "slice of life" book would tell you more about FDR than Jonathan Alter, but this is not the case with this dry account. Alter spends more time obsessing about Elanor's questionable relationship with Lorena Hickok, and characterizing FDR as an elitist snob who got lucky, than relating any new information, or describing FDR's thought processes or reasoning. Getting through it was torture.
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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
by: Jonathan Alter
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.917092
EAN: 9780743246002
ISBN: 0743246004
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: May 02, 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This is the story of a political miracle -- the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft of a master storyteller, Jonathan Alter brings us closer than ever before to the Roosevelt magic. Facing the gravest crisis since the Civil War, FDR used his cagey political instincts and ebullient temperament in the storied first Hundred Days of his presidency to pull off an astonishing conjuring act that lifted the country and saved both democracy and capitalism.
Who was this man? To revive the nation when it felt so hopeless took an extraordinary display of optimism and self-confidence. Alter shows us how a snobbish and apparently lightweight young aristocrat was forged into an incandescent leader by his domineering mother; his independent wife; his eccentric top adviser, Louis Howe; and his ally-turned-bitter-rival, Al Smith, the Tammany Hall street fighter FDR had to vanquish to complete his preparation for the presidency.
"Old Doc Roosevelt" had learned at Warm Springs, Georgia, how to lift others who suffered from polio, even if he could not cure their paralysis, or his own. He brought the same talents to a larger stage. Derided as weak and unprincipled by pundits, Governor Roosevelt was barely nominated for president in 1932. As president-elect, he escaped assassination in Miami by inches, then stiffed President Herbert Hoover's efforts to pull him into cooperating with him to deal with a terrifying crisis. In the most tumultuous and dramatic presidential transition in history, the entire banking structure came tumbling down just hours before FDR's legendary "only thing we have to fear is fear itself" Inaugural Address.
In a major historical find, Alter unearths the draft of a radio speech in which Roosevelt considered enlisting a private army of American Legion veterans on his first day in office. He did not. Instead of circumventing Congress and becoming the dictator so many thought they needed, FDR used his stunning debut to experiment. He rescued banks, put men to work immediately, and revolutionized mass communications with pioneering press conferences and the first Fireside Chat. As he moved both right and left, Roosevelt's insistence on "action now" did little to cure the Depression, but he began to rewrite the nation's social contract and lay the groundwork for his most ambitious achievements, including Social Security.
From one of America's most respected journalists, rich in insights and with fresh documentation and colorful detail, this thrilling story of presidential leadership -- of what government is for -- resonates through the events of today. It deepens our understanding of how Franklin Delano Roosevelt restored hope and transformed America.
The Defining Moment will take its place among our most compelling works of political history.
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Warts and AllThe Defining Moment is extremely relevant to the current period, the transition between Presidents Bush and Obama. The parallels are impressive: pressure for the President-elect to start acting, vast economic problems, and even an international economic conference.
Alter demonstrates that FDR was not the messiah, but he does so without vilifying and blaming him for prolonging the depression. FDR got a lot right and he got a lot wrong, but the fact that he kept trying with his forceful ... Read More
Rating:
- Thank You Jonathan AlterThank you, Jonathan Alter for writing such a compelling study of great leadership. Thank you, also for including such influential figures and accomplished women as Lorena Hickok and Frances Perkins. You are not just an historian; you are an herstorian as well.
Rating:
- Masterful portrait of FDR's rise to president and his first '100 Days'Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek, and frequent contributor at MSNBC has written an excellent book about the rise and early presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt entitled 'The Defining Moment.' In concise yet articulate chapters Alter paints a compelling portrait of FDR, ther president who took the helm at what was, up until that point, the direst financial and societal crisis the nation had seen perhaps since the Civil War, and certainly in the 20th century.
Now known as 'The ... Read More
Rating:
- Excellent and Very Well WrittenThe book is well written, well documented and very interesting. It is factual, and easy to understand. I am a Historian and have found this book well above average. I highly reccomend this for reading both alone and in classrooms.
Rating:
- Is this guy beig paid by the word?Ideally, an historical "slice of life" book would tell you more about FDR than Jonathan Alter, but this is not the case with this dry account. Alter spends more time obsessing about Elanor's questionable relationship with Lorena Hickok, and characterizing FDR as an elitist snob who got lucky, than relating any new information, or describing FDR's thought processes or reasoning. Getting through it was torture.
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
