The Coming of the New Deal 1933-1935

The Coming of the New Deal 1933-1935 volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.s Age of Roosevelt series describes Franklin Delano Roosevelts 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 Schlesingers customary verve is a gripping account of critical years in the history of the republic.