FDR and Reagan: Transformative Presidents with Clashing Visions

by John W. Sloan

Book Overview

Perhaps the twentieth century's most revered presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan could not seem more different as standard-bearers of liberal and conservative revolutions. But, as John Sloan demonstrates, they were more similar than most people suppose.

One rising out of the Great Depression and the self-defeating efforts of Herbert Hoover, the other out of the malaise of the 1970s and the failings of Jimmy Carter, both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700616152
• ISBN13: 9780700616152
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"