Eric Rauchway
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different approaches to the question of the day: How could the nation recover from the Great Depression? As historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War, FDR laid out coherent, far-ranging plans for the New Deal in the months prior to his inauguration. Meanwhile, still-President Hoover, worried about FDR's abilities...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After President William McKinley was fatally shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Eric Rauchway's brilliant Murdering McKinley re-creates Leon Czolgosz's hastily conducted trial and then traverses America as Dr. Vernon Briggs, a Boston alienist, sets out to discover why Czolgosz rose up to kill the President. While uncovering the answer that eluded Briggs and setting...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xii, 237 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Progressives-those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research-have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration from their own lives-from the challenges of forming a family. Following the lives and careers of...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 166
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
150 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures.
Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies-described as "laissez-faire with a vengeance"-which in effect...
