Artículos relacionados a The Plots Against the President: FDR, a Nation in Crisis,...

The Plots Against the President: FDR, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right - Tapa dura

Denton, Sally

 
9781608190898: The Plots Against the President: FDR, a Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right
Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 1608190897 ISBN 13: 9781608190898
Editorial: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2012

Sinopsis

In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt finally became the nation's thirty-second president. The man swept in by a landslide four months earlier now took charge of a country in the grip of panic brought on by economic catastrophe. Though no one yet knew it-not even Roosevelt-it was a radical moment in America. And with all of its unmistakable resonance with events of today, it is a cautionary tale.

The Plots Against the President follows Roosevelt as he struggled to right the teetering nation, armed with little more than indomitable optimism and the courage to try anything. His bold New Deal experiments provoked a backlash from both extremes of the political spectrum. Wall Street bankers threatened by FDR's policies made common cause with populist demagogues like Huey Long and Charles Coughlin. But just how far FDR's enemies were willing to go to thwart him has never been fully explored.

Two startling events that have been largely ignored by historians frame Sally Denton's swift, tense narrative of a year of fear: anarchist Giuseppe Zangara's assassination attempt on Roosevelt, and a plutocrats' plot to overthrow the government that would come to be known as the Wall Street Putsch. The Plots Against the President throws light on the darkest chapter of the Depression and the moments when the fate of the American republic hung in the balance.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor


Sally Denton is an award-winning author and investigative journalist. Her books include Passion and Principle, American Massacre, Faith and Betrayal, The Bluegrass Conspiracy, and The Money and the Power (cowritten with Roger Morris). She is a Guggenheim fellow and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She lives in New Mexico.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1608190897
ISBN 13 
9781608190898
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
273
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
WordUnited GmbH
distribution@wordunited.com

Theodorstrasse 105
DUSSELDORF
40472
Alemania