Product Description: Franklin Roosevelt's legendary first fifteen weeks in office have become the yardstick by which every subsequent American president has felt obliged to measure himself. Badger provides a succinct, balanced, and insightful summary of what Roosevelt accomplished and how he did it.

Product Description: The Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelt’s first fifteen weeks in office, have become the stuff of legend, a mythic yardstick against which every subsequent American president has felt obliged to measure himself. The renowned historian Anthony J...read more

Product Description: The twelve essays in this book, several published here for the first time, represent some of Tony Badger’s best work in his ongoing examination of how white liberal southern politicians who came to prominence in the New Deal and World War II handled the race issue when it became central to politics in the 1950s and 1960s...read more

Product Description: Anthony Badger’s notably successful history is not simply another narrative of the New Deal, nor does the figure of Franklin Roosevelt loom as large in his account as in some others. What Mr. Badger does so well is to consider important aspects of New Deal activity agriculture, welfare, and politics, interpreting the history of each...read more

Product Description: In this defining statement about the state of the discipline, a "who's who" of prominent scholars addresses and critiques the entire sweep of American political history. Exemplifying the revitalizing power of the "new political history" and its renewed emphasis on large "P" politics, these writers have combined to produce an illuminating synthesis of the most recent work in the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the results of New Deal economic programs and discusses why they were unable to bring about industrial recovery and how they contributed to the growth of trade unions