The Coming of the New Deal: The Age of Roosevelt, 1933–1935

I saved a bunch by buying used; the quality of the book received was excellent. Thank you!

Schlesinger writes engagingly of the personalities, the politics and the historical events which shaped America in the depression years. His grasp of economic facts and the emergence of an understanding of the need for government to employ deficit spending to support demand is masterful. But he also presents the alternative and competing economic ideologies--both domestic and foreign--which influenced politics in the thirties. Knowledge of this history provides helpful context for understanding that contemporary political and social debate is a continuation of the long-running battle to define the role of government in the American economy.

Essential Reading. And fun reading, too. The author writes charmingly; difficult subjects---economics---are easy to graspbecause Schlesinger has extraordinary skill describing complex ideas.Most Important: at this trying time in US history, it is well to understand what happened to produce the current mess.The Coming of the New Deal is the perfect guide to that understanding.

I'm a New Deal junkie - I had found another in the trilogy at a used book sale and bought it and that made me look for this one. These are first hand accounts told to A. Schlessinger, Jr. This kind of "memory" isn't available anymore. This isn't a light book - it's densely packed with information and at times assumes a level of knowledge by the reader that they may or may not have.

Why did I wait so long to read Schlesinger? I keep kicking myself about this lapse. "The Age of Roosevelt" is a must read. All four volumes are well researched, documented and written in a style that rivets the readers attention throughout.

Received as described.

Everything old is new again. The book reads like current events. It is also handy to combat the FDR/New Deal rebutals being circulated by faux news and the like.

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This is Volume Two of a series, in which Volume One describes how Roosevelt comes to be President-elect. Volume Two opens with Roosevelt arriving at the White House, and swinging into action for his famous 100 Days. Written in a terse style, Schlesinger covers every rivetting moment of these 100 Days and the three years that follows, with insightful pen portraits of all of the main characters involved, and detailed explanations of all the key decisions taken.To my considerable astonishment, I found this book at least as illuminating of current political debates as of past ones. Suddenly, I see the various campaign speeches of Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton, each as I write contending for Presidential nominations, as invoking arguments that have been around for hundreds of years, and how they played out when fully trialled in the 1920's and 1930's.All in all, one of the most thoroughly satisfactory books I have read in recent years.