This book assesses contrasting interpretations of President Roosevelt's relations with the Nye Committee. It explores the complexity confronting Rayburn in weighing the factors that influenced his actions during the New Deal portion of his near half century in Congress.
Although Roosevelt had no single plan to alter Congress's role, the incremental changes adopted during the New Deal transformed Congress.
William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 19321940 (New York: HarperCollins, 1963), 42. See, for example, Meg Kissinger, “Milwaukeeans Remember FDR's Impact on Their Lives,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 12, ...
This volume examines the presidency of FDR through a very distinctive set of lenses: the representation of FDR in film and popular culture, discussions of New Deal art and art policy, the social and political meanings of public architecture ...
19 William E. Leuchtenburg, a prolific scholar of the Roosevelt years, has emphasized the idiosyncratic judgments in the liter ature about whether the president was a dynamic leader or procrastinator. He notes that "historians have ...
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UnitedStates, 295 U.S. 602 (1935); see Nelson and Leuchtenburg. 18. Leuchtenburg, p. 109. 19. ... William E. Leuchtenburg, In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to George Bush, 3rd ed. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001), ...
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher , M. E. Sharpe , Inc. , 80 ... Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln : competing ...
This is an instructive resource for scholars who are seeking an alternative to currently constructed approaches to the subject, and will be of appeal to those interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls more generally.
See William E. Leuchtenburg , Perils of Prosperity ( Chicago : University of Chicago , 1958 ) . 10. George Marsden , Fundamentalism and American Culture : The Shaping of Twentieth Century Evangelism , pp .
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