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Roosevelt's purge : how FDR fought to change the Democratic Party / Susan Dunn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunn, Susan, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Democratic Party (U.S.).
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (382 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Susan Dunn tells the dramatic story of FDR’s unprecedented battle to drive his foes out of his party by intervening in Democratic primaries and backing liberal challengers to conservative incumbents.
- Contents:
- Getting ready to fight
- The nonpartisan leader
- Favorite son of the South
- Southern insurgents
- The partisan leader takes the first steps
- Rolling westward
- Marching through Georgia
- "Cotton Ed"
- The Maryland shore
- New York streets
- The dynamics of the purge
- From the purge to realignment.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674263123
- 067426312X
- 9780674058453
- 0674058453
- OCLC:
- 709591733
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