In Search of Roosevelt

Rexford G. Tugwell

Published by Harvard University Press 1972

In Search of Roosevelt

Rexford G. Tugwell

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674594487

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the author comments, "was one of those individuals who, because he rose to leadership in national and world affairs in times of crisis, threw a long shadow... his shadow lay over America for a long time in the sense that his absence was felt and comparisons with him persisted. He will continue to be a point of reference even when the inevitable processes of change have extinguished the problems he was so well suited to tackle." In this collection of essays, Rexford Tugwell seeks to explain this indomitable force. He explores Roosevelt's influence, assesses the means he used to achieve his ends, and penetrates some of the hidden places of his character. As stated in the preface to this volume, many of the mysteries surrounding Roosevelt will never be unlocked, yet, as evidenced throughout its pages, this study is an unrivaled success in its depiction of the man and the President.

In Search of Roosevelt begins with a revealing interview with Otis Moore, manager of Roosevelt's farm in Warm Springs, Georgia. The underlying intention here is to uncover the source of Roosevelt's emotional involvement in the problems of American agriculture. The work then proceeds with in-depth recollections of Roosevelt as individual, as reformer, and as uncommitted believer in a federally controlled balance of wages and prices.

These essays are inevitably tinged with nostalgia. Mr. Tugwell's relationship with Roosevelt was that of a confidant and an associate; he was a member of the so-called Brains Trust, and served under Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary and then Under Secretary of Agriculture (1933-1937), and, during the war years, as governor of Puerto Rico. He cannot bring to this study total indifference to the subject, but he does bring his insight as an astute political observer and historian.

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Tugwell Rexford G. :

Rexford G. Tugwell is now a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, California

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1 EPISODE BELOW DOWDELL'S KNOB Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 THE FALLOW YEARS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3 THE SOURCES OF ROOSEVELT'S REFORMISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
4 ROOSEVELT'S PROGRESSIVE ORTHODOXY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
5 PREPARATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
6 PROTAGONISTS: ROOSEVELT AND HOOVER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
7 THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB ADDRESS IN THE FIRST CAMPAIGN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
8 ROOSEVELT AND THE BONUS MARCHERS OF 1932 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
9 TRANSITION: HOOVER TO ROOSEVELT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
10 ON THE VERGE OF THE PRESIDENCY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
11 THE COMPROMISING ROOSEVELT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
12 THE EXPERIMENTAL ROOSEVELT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1972
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 313
Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674594487

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1972
ISBN: 9780674594456