Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture

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M.E. Sharpe, 2001 - 154 Seiten
How did Americans respond to the economic catastrophe of 1929? In what ways did the social and cultural responses of the American people inform the politics of the period? How did changes in political beliefs alter cultural activities? This volume examines the presidency of FDR through a very distinctive set of lenses: the representation of FDR in film and popular culture, discussions of New Deal art and art policy, the social and political meanings of public architecture, 1930s music, and many more.
 

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The Popular Iconography of FDR
9
The Sun Comes Out Tomorrow
19
Federal Arts Policy and Political Legitimation
42
A Reassessment of New Deal Art
63
Heroes in Texas Post Office Murals
73
WPA Frescoes Louisianas Depression Era Economy
81
WPA Buildings in Northwest Louisiana
88
The WPAs Forgotten Muse
98
Dont Let Hitler or the Depression Kill Baseball
119
Cultural Chronology
134
Biographical Digest
136
List of Contributors
145
Index
147
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Seite 15 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Seite 14 - It seems to be unfortunately true that the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading. When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
Seite 14 - nothing" about legs and arms. He knew a great deal about internal medicine, but nothing about surgery. So he got his partner, who was an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Win-the-War, to take care of this fellow who had been in this bad accident. And the result is that the patient is back on his feet. He has given up his crutches. He isn't wholly well yet, and he won't be until he wins the war.

Autoren-Profil (2001)

A Dallas area native, Nancy Beck Young is an assistant professor history at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois. She specializes in twentieth-century American political history and the history of American women. Coauthor of Texas, Her Texas: The Life and Times of Frances Goff, she is currently working on a new book, Forgotten Feminist: Lou Henry Hoover as First Lady, under contract to the University press of Kansas.

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