America in the Twenties and Thirties : The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cashman, Sean Dennis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

United States--Civilization--1918-1945.

United States.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Local Subjects:

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

United States--Civilization--1918-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (892 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

America in the Twenties and Thirties

Place of Publication:

New York : NYU Press, 1989.

Summary:

In this, the third volume of an interdisciplinary history of the United States since the Civil War, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry affluence of the 1920s throught the searing tragedy of the Great Depression to the achievements of the New Deal in providing millions with relief, job opportunities, and hope before America was poised for its ascent to globalism on the eve of World War II. The book concludes with an account of the sliding path to war as Europe and Asia became prey to the ambitions of Hitler and military opportunists i

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Driving Ambition: The Continuing Revolutions in Transportation; 2: The 1920s: An American Dream That Became a Nightmare; 3: The Incomplete Politics of the Republican Ascendancy; 4: Snow in Harvest: The Onset of the Great Depression; 5: Happy Days Are Here Again: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Early New Deal; 6: Stormy Weather: The Later New Deal; 7: A House Divided: Workers, Labor, and Ethnic Groups; 8: What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? Black America

9: Sounds Impossible: The Golden Age of Radio10: Seeing Is Deceiving: Hollywood and the Movies; 11: Requiem, but No Peace: The Lost Generation and the Arts; 12: Artistic License; 13: New Horizons, Closed Frontiers: America in World Affairs After 1920; 14: "Who Is This Hitler, and What Does He Want?" Isolation and Intervention; Sources; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781479856114

1479856118

OCLC:

913695104