FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America

ISBN-13: 9780755637164 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 360 str.

Iwan Morgan

Opis

The definitive political biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Recenzje

[A] superb study of the way FDR successfully created a presidency that could renew America. Tony Badger Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Prologue: FDR and the American Presidency 1 FDR's Pre-Presidency: The Making of a Leader 2 Chief Legislator: FDR and the Hundred Days 3 New Dealer: FDR and Socio-Economic Reform 4 Economic Manager: FDR's Political Economy 5 Second Emancipator: FDR and African Americans 6 Chief Administrator: FDR's Institutional Presidency 7 Constitutional Revolutionary: FDR and the Supreme Court 8 Party Leader: FDR and the Democrats 9 Communicator-in-Chief: FDR's Public Presidency 10 Chief Diplomat: FDR as Foreign Policy Leader 11 Commander-in-Chief: Structures and Strategies 12 Commander-in-Chief: Arsenals and Alliances 13 Practical Visionary: FDR's National-Security Presidency Epilogue: FDR's Presidential Legacy - Truman to Biden Notes Select bibliography

O autorze

Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies emeritus at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK. He is also a distinguished fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK. He was the recipient of the British Association of American Studies Honorary Fellowship in 2014, and winner of the Richard Neustadt Book Prize in 2010. He is the author of Reagan: American Icon (2016), named by The Times/Sunday Times as a Politics Book of the Year.