A NEW DEAL
Franklin Roosevelt and America's Fight Against the Depression, 1933-1941By Robert Clarence Whitfield
Length6h 1m
About this audiobook
The definitive narrative history of FDR and the New Deal — Franklin Roosevelt, the Great Depression, Social Security, the WPA, and the complete story of how America's federal government was remade, 1929-1941.
On the morning of March 4, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt placed his hand on a Dutch Reformed Bible and swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Nine thousand banks had closed since his election. Unemployment had climbed to twenty-five percent. Industrial output had fallen by half from its 1929 peak. The man who stepped to the microphone sounded like someone who was not afraid. In 1933 America, that sound was revolutionary.
In this complete New Deal history, historian Robert Clarence Whitfield traces the full arc of the Roosevelt years — from the market crash of October 1929 and Herbert Hoover's failure of nerve, through the Hundred Days, the alphabet agencies, the Second New Deal's social insurance legislation, and the conservative coalition that halted reform in 1938. At the center stand Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Frances Perkins, and the millions of ordinary Americans whose lives the New Deal remade — told in their own voices, grounded in the primary record, and unflinching about the program's racial exclusions.
Inside this Great Depression history:
The Bank Holiday and the First Fireside Chat — Roosevelt restored confidence in a week: the Emergency Banking Act signed, examined banks declared solvent, deposits exceeding withdrawals for the first time in months (Chapter 5)
The Hundred Days and the alphabet agencies — NRA, AAA, CCC, FERA: 99 days of the most concentrated lawmaking in American history (Chapter 6)
Social Security and the Wagner Act — Ida May Fuller's first monthly check of $22.54 on January 31, 1940, and the Wagner Act's legally protected collective bargaining (Chapters 9, 22)
The WPA and the cultural New Deal — 8.5 million workers at its peak, including the writers, painters, and theatre workers who produced a government-funded American cultural record (Chapter 10)
Black Americans and the New Deal's limits — Social Security's deliberate exclusion of domestic and agricultural workers to preserve the South's racial wage structure, and what Eleanor Roosevelt did about it (Chapter 18)
Did the New Deal end the Depression? — unemployment was still at ten percent eight years in; the honest assessment of what the programs achieved and why war mobilization succeeded where the New Deal fell short (Chapter 21)
The New Deal left behind Social Security, the FDIC, the SEC, the NLRB — institutions that still govern American life. It also left behind a question only partially answered: what does democratic government owe its people when prosperity fails? This Franklin Roosevelt biography and Great Depression history tells the story of the incomplete, indispensable answer Roosevelt's twelve years produced.
For readers of David Kennedy's FREEDOM FROM FEAR and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s THE AGE OF ROOSEVELT.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Biography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Author’s Note
3Prologue: The Bank Holiday
4PART ONE: CRISIS — THE HOOVER YEARS (1929-1933)
5Chapter 1: The Crash — October 1929 and Its Aftermath
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6Chapter 2: Hoover's Response — The Limits of Conservative Government
7Chapter 3: The Bonus Army — Veterans March on Washington, 1932
8Chapter 4: FDR's Rise — The Election of 1932
9PART TWO: THE HUNDRED DAYS (1933)
10Chapter 5: The Banking Crisis and the First Fireside Chat
11Chapter 6: The Alphabet Agencies — NRA, AAA, CCC, and the New Deal Machine
12Chapter 7: Emergency Relief — FERA and the First Federal Safety Net
13Chapter 8: The First New Deal — Philosophy, Structure, and Ambition
14PART THREE: THE PROGRAMS (1933-1938)
15Chapter 9: The Second New Deal — Social Security and the Wagner Act
16Chapter 10: The WPA — Art, Culture, and the Work Relief Program
17Chapter 11: The TVA — Government Power and Regional Development
18Chapter 12: Banking Reform and the SEC — Regulating American Finance
19PART FOUR: OPPOSITION AND LIMITS
20Chapter 13: The Supreme Court Fight — FDR's Court-Packing Plan
21Chapter 14: Conservative Opposition — The Liberty League and the American Right
22Chapter 15: The Left Critique — Socialists, Communists, and Populist Challenges
23Chapter 16: The End of the New Deal — The Conservative Coalition of 1938
24PART FIVE: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS
25Chapter 17: Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal's Social Conscience
26Chapter 18: Black Americans and the New Deal — The Limits of the Coalition
27Chapter 19: Labor and the New Deal — The CIO and Industrial Unionism
28Chapter 20: The Dust Bowl Migrants — Okies, California, and the Human Cost
29PART SIX: LEGACIES
30Chapter 21: Did the New Deal End the Depression?
31Chapter 22: The Welfare State — Social Security's Long Life
32Chapter 23: The Mixed Economy — Government's Permanent New Role
33Chapter 24: FDR's Legacy — The New Deal and American Liberalism
34Epilogue: What Roosevelt Built
35Acknowledgments
36Selected Bibliography
37About the Author
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