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The Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidential Library and Museum
presents an author talk and signing
with
Eric Rauchway author of
WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT,
AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL
Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
Henry A. Wallace Center at the
FDR Presidential Library and Home
HYDE PARK, NY -- The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents an author talk and signing with
Eric Rauchway author of
WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL on Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. The event will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home.
This is a free public event but registration is required.
Synopsis:
WINTER WAR
: The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history -- and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism.
When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different approaches to the question of the day: How could the nation recover from the Great Depression?
As historian Eric Rauchway shows in WINTER WAR, FDR laid out coherent, far-ranging plans for the New Deal in the months prior to his inauguration. Meanwhile, still-President Hoover, worried about FDR's abilities and afraid of the president-elect's policies, became the first comprehensive critic of the New Deal. Thus, even before FDR took office, both the principles of the welfare state, and reaction against it, had already taken form.
WINTER WAR reveals how, in the months before the hundred days, FDR and Hoover battled over ideas and shaped the divisive politics of the twentieth century.
Eric Rauchway is a distinguished historian and expert on the Progressive and New Deal eras at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of several acclaimed books on the subject, including THE MONEY MAKERS, THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL, and BLESSED AMONG NATIONS, and has contributed to the
New York Times, the
Washington Post, the
Financial Times, the
New Republic, the
Los Angeles Times,
Dissent, and
The American Prospect. He lives in Davis, California.
