Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America

Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America

by Adam Cohen
Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America

Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America

by Adam Cohen

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Overview

"A fascinating account of an extraordinary moment in the life of the United States." —The New York Times

With the world currently in the grips of a financial crisis unlike anything since the Great Depression, Nothing to Fear could not be timelier. This acclaimed work of history brings to life Franklin Roosevelt's first hundred days in office, when he and his inner circle launched the New Deal, forever reinventing the role of the federal government. As Cohen reveals, five fiercely intelligent, often clashing personalities presided over this transformation and pushed the president to embrace a bold solution. Nothing to Fear is the definitive portrait of the men and women who engineered the nation's recovery from the worst economic crisis in American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143116653
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/26/2010
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Adam Cohen is assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times, where he has been a member of the editorial board since 2002. He was previously a senior writer at Time and is the author of The Perfect Store: Inside eBay and a coauthor of American Pharaoh, a biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley. Before entering journalism, Cohen was an education-reform lawyer, and he has a law degree from Harvard.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Chapter 1 "Action, and Action Now" 33

Chapter 2 "Moley! Moley! Moley! Lord God Almighty!" 97

Chapter 3 "The Hardest-Boiled Man in Washington" 171

Chapter 4 "Good Farming; Clear Thinking Right Living" 218

Chapter 5 "Good Lord! This Is a Revolution!" 263

Chapter 6 "'Social Justice' ... Has Been the Maxim of Her Life" 309

Chapter 7 "Just So We Get a Public Works Program" 381

Chapter 8 "He Must Be Part of This Historic Show" 480

Chapter 9 "People Don't Eat in the Long Run - They Eat Every Day" 511

Epilogue: "A Lot Happened Out of That Determination of a Few People, Didn't It?" 547

Acknowledgments 613

Notes 619

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"Cohen humanizes the policy process and adds considerable drama to the established storyline." —-Chicago Tribune

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