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The Fall of the House of Roosevelt : Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ /

In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Janeway, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2004]
Colección:Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: Public and Private
  • THE PARTNERS
  • 1. Government by Brains Trust
  • 2. Tommy Corcoran and the New Dealers' Gospel "
  • 3. Making the New Deal Revolution
  • 4. The Fight for the Rooseveltian Succession
  • 5. 1945-The New Dealers' Government-in-Exile
  • IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE
  • 6. Rise of an Insider
  • 7. Ends and Means
  • 8. Forbidden Version
  • RECEIVERSHIP
  • 9. Enter LBJ, Stage Center
  • 10. 1960-Checkmate
  • 11. President of All the People
  • 12. Last Act
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index