The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A Brief History with Documents

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Pub. Date: 2000-01-21
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

The era of Franklin D.Roosevelt and the New Deal was a time of depression and despair, economic rebirth and renewal, and mobilization for a war in both the East and the West. Richard Polenberg's introduction to this new volume provides an engaging historical and biographical overview of the period by focusing on one of its key actors. The biographical introduction is followed by over 45 topically arranged primary sources that provide students with a rich context in which to understand FDR's multifaceted role as president, reformer, policymaker, and commander-in-chief. The readings thoroughly cover issues of race and ethnicity, profile First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and explore the New Deal's transformative agencies for their economic and social ramifications and the constitutional revolution they triggered. A chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index are also provided.

Author Biography

RICHARD POLENBERG is professor of history at Cornell University, where he has received the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award and was appointed Goldwin Smith Professor of American History in 1986. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and has published widely on twentieth-century American history, including The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process (1997), Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech (1989), for which he won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award and the Gustavus Myers Foundation's Outstanding Book Award; and One Nation Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States since 1938 (1980).

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Preface vii
PART ONE Introduction: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Liberalism 1(36)
FDR: The Paradox
1(2)
Hyde Park to Washington
3(5)
The New Deal, 1933--1936
8(8)
The Waning of Reform, 1937--1940
16(8)
Liberals at War, 1941--1945
24(9)
FDR: The Legacy
33(4)
PART TWO The Documents 37(208)
FDR as President
39(29)
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
39(5)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
First Press Conference, March 8, 1933
44(3)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1935
47(6)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936
53(5)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937
58(6)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Speeches on Conservation and the Environment, 1936--1937
64(4)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Deal
68(25)
The National Labor Relations Act, February 21, 1935
68(4)
Robert F. Wagner
The Social Security Act, September 2, 1935
72(5)
Frances Perkins
The Crisis in Agriculture, September 12, 1936
77(6)
John Steinbeck
Federal Relief, September 19, 1936
83(6)
Harry Hopkins
The Federal Theatre Project, May 11, 1938
89(4)
Hallie Flanagan
Eleanor Roosevelt and American Women
93(15)
Women in the Labor Force, June 16, 1938
93(6)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women and the New Deal, April 8, 1936
99(4)
Molly Dewson
Women in Politics, March--April 1940
103(5)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Documenting the Depression: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange
108(6)
Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta, 1936
109(1)
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
110(1)
Mexican Migratory Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
111(1)
Small Independent Gas Station during Cotton Strike, Kern City, California, November 1938
112(2)
Right...and Left...Face
114(19)
The Challenge to Liberty, 1934
114(3)
Herbert Hoover
American Liberty League, The New Deal vs. Democracy, July 15, 1936
117(3)
The EPIC Plan, 1934
120(2)
Upton Sinclair
The National Union for Social Justice, November 11, 1934
122(4)
Father Charles E. Coughlin
Share Our Wealth, May 23, 1935
126(7)
Huey P. Long
Race, Ethnicity, and Reform
133(28)
Songs of the Mexican Migration: Deported [Deportados], 1933
133(3)
The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, 1940
136(6)
Selden Menefee
Orin C. Cassmore
The NAACP and Segregation, January--February 1934
142(5)
W.E.B. Du Bois
Walter White
The March on Washington, November 1942
147(4)
A. Philip Randolph
A New Deal for American Indians, 1938
151(5)
John Collier
The Voice of a Navajo Indian, April 10, 1934
156(5)
J. C. Morgan
The Constitutional Revolution
161(23)
United States v. Butler, January 6, 1936
161(8)
Owen Roberts
Harlan Fiske Stone
Unpacking the Court, February 13, 1937
169(4)
Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
A Greatly Dangerous Precedent, July 19, 1937
173(2)
Herbert H. Lehman
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, March 29, 1937
175(5)
Charles Evans Hughes
George Sutherland
Helvering v. Davis, May 24, 1937
180(4)
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Morale in Wartime: A Portfolio of Propaganda Posters
184(7)
U.S. War Manpower Commission, United We Win, 1943
185(1)
U.S. Employment Service, Do the Job HE Left Behind, 1943[?]
186(2)
Packer Aircraft, Lookout Monks! Here's Your Plane Warning! 1942
188(1)
U.S. Treasury Department, Buy Victory Bonds, 1945
189(2)
The ``Good War''?
191(54)
Western Defense Command, Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, April 30, 1942
191(3)
Footprints: Poetry of the American Relocation Camp Experience, ca. 1942--1944
194(3)
Korematsu v. United States, December 18, 1944
197(7)
Hugo Black
Frank Murphy
Debate about the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, May 20, 1943
204(7)
Pearl S. Buck
A. Leonard Allen
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, June 14, 1943
211(8)
Robert Jackson
Felix Frankfurter
Report to the Secretary [of the Treasury] on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews, January 13, 1944
219(2)
Randolph Paul
Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz, July--November 1944
221(3)
John W. Pehle
John J. McCloy
Race, Religion, and Prejudice, May 11, 1942
224(2)
Eleanor Roosevelt
An Economic Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944
226(3)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
APPENDICES
Chronology of Events during the Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933--1945)
229(4)
Questions for Consideration
233(2)
Selected Bibliography
235(10)
Index 245

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