The Coming of the New Deal

The Age of Roosevelt, 1933–1935

Arthur M. Schlesinger

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9780618340866
• eBook ISBN:
  9780547527642
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: History

Volume two of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's Age of Roosevelt series describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first tumultuous years in the White House.

Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression, FDR told the American people that they have nothing to fear but fear itself. The conventional wisdom having failed, he tried unorthodox remedies to avert economic collapse. His first hundred days restored national morale, and his New Dealers filled Washington with new approaches to recovery and reform. Combining idealistic ends with realistic means, Roosevelt proposed to humanize, redeem, and rescue capitalism. The Coming of the New Deal, written with Schlesinger's customary verve, is a gripping account of critical years in the history of the republic.

"Monumental…authoritative…spirited…one of the major works in American historical literature."— New York Times

 

"Impelling, an achievement as much in its sensitivity as in its scholarship…It is essential reading."— Kirkus Reviews

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Abt, John, hired by Frank (or AAA, 50, 53; joins Harold Ware’s underground group, 52

Acheson, Dean G., made Undersecretary of Treasury, 196–97; at Woodin’s sickbed, 218, 220; and monetary policy, 134; made member of Warburg’s monetary group, 236; views on gold-purchase program, 238–39, 240; Warren’s description of, 239; resignation of, 241–42

Adams, John Quincy, quoted, 315

Adams, Alva B., Senator, 438

Addams, Jane, 141, 298

Æ (George Russell), 82, 364

Agricultural Adjustment Act, 20, 39, 40–41, 44; Thomas amendment to, 18, 42, 44, 199, 200, 214, 249, 251

Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 46; crop control programs of, 59–64; accomplishments of, 70–73; tensions within, 74–80; and conservation, 342; and sharecroppers, 376, 379

Agricultural Extension Service, 59–60; 72, 73, 81

Agriculture, planning for, 16; domestic allotment plan for, 36–39

Agriculture Department and struggle with Interior Department over conservation, 341–44, 346–49

Air Mail Act of 1934, 454

Air mail; subsidies, 448–50; Air Corps and, 451–52, 453

Alabama Power Company, 325, 326

Aldrich, Winthrop, on gold policy, 201; calls for elimination of work relief, 274; at Pecora investigation, 435; demands separation of commercial and investment banking, 443; suggests President rebuild public confidence in bankers, 499

Alexander, Dr. Will W., 381; talks with farmer about cooperative plantations, 372; letter from F.D.R. about Resettlement farms, 373; made head of Farm Security Administration, 381

Alger, George W., 91

Alleghany Corporation, 436

Allen, Robert S., 564

Alsop, Joseph, 276

Altmeyer, Arthur J., made chairman of Technical Board on Economic Security, 304–3; member of Advisory Council of Committee for Economic Security, 313; favors federal system of unemployment compensation, 314; and success of Social Security program, 315

Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, 415

Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 89, 140–41

Amberjack II, 216–17, 219, 221, 582

America First Committee, 199

America Must Choose, Wallace, 83–84, 254, 460

America Must Lose, 459

America Self-Contained, Crowther, 185, 258

American Agriculturist, 244

American Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, 484

American Association for Labor Legislation, 301

American Association for Old Age Security, 302, 303

American Bankers Association, 428, 443; 1934 meeting of. 499

American Civil Liberties Union, 488

American Communist party: and AAA, 52–54, 57; Lorena Hickok notes activity of, 272; and the Lundeen bill, 395–96; and Consumers’ Research, 359; and the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, 377; and hatred of Wagner bill, 405; and ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Copyright
• Foreword to the Mariner Edition
• Foreword
• Epigraph
• Prologue: The Hundred Days
• The Fight for Agricultural Balance
• Emergence of a Farm Policy
• Organization of Agricultural Adjustment
• The Politics of Agriculture
• The Ordeal of a Prophet
• Experiment in Industrial Planning
• The Birth of NRA
• The Blue Eagle
• The Conundrum of Price
• The Conundrum of Labor
• The Decline of NRA
• The Economics of Nationalism
• The First New Deal
• The Dollar Dilemma
• Explosion in London
• Variations in Gold and Silver
• The Triumphs of Reciprocity
• The Cry in the Streets
• The Rise of Federal Relief
• The Fight for Public Works
• The Birth of Social Security
• The Battle for Public Development
• Remaking the Tennessee Valley
• Saving the Land
• The Revival of Community
• War against Rural Poverty
• Transformation of a Labor Movement
• The Travail of Labor
• Development of a National Labor Policy
• Emergence of the CIO
• Resurgence on the Right
• The Bridge to Business
• Alienation of the Financial Community
• Crisis in the Skies
• Controlling the Stock Exchanges
• The Rise of Conservative Opposition
• The Verdict of 1934
• Evolution of the Presidency
• The Dynamics of Decision
• The Control of Government
• The Anatomy of Leadership
• Behind the Mask
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author
• Connect with HMH