Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932

by Donald A. Ritchie

Book Overview

With the landmark election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, decades of Republican ascendancy gave way to a half century of Democratic dominance. It was nothing less than a major political realignment, as the direction of federal policy shifted from conservative to liberal-and liberalism itself was redefined in the process. Electing FDR is the first book in seventy years to examine in its entirety the 1932 presidential election that ushered in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700615504
• ISBN13: 9780700615506
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"