Lawrence Public Library

FDR and the new deal for beginners, Paul Buhle ; comics by Sabrina Jones ; afterword by Harvey Pekar

eng

Includes bibliographical references (page 144)

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no index present

non fiction

FDR and the new deal for beginners

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Paul Buhle ; comics by Sabrina Jones ; afterword by Harvey Pekar

A For beginners documentary comic book

Introduction (These unhappy times -- Introductory note) -- 1. Before he was president. A lonely member of the gentry (The Hudson Valley boy -- The family, the law and the Democrats -- Another Mr. Roosevelt goes to Washington -- Living with disability -- Social headaches in the aspirin age -- Governor Roosevelt) -- The Crash (Wall Street crash, American crisis) -- Happy days (FDR the presidential candidate -- Victory! -- And Hoover leaves a mess behind) -- 2. Crisis. Meeting the crisis with a New Deal (A nation wants self-confidence back -- Good times? : beer and bread, at least) -- Roosevelt's tree army (Roosevelt the lonely leader -- Public energy #1 : Eleanor Roosevelt -- Problems and divisions -- Americans get radical -- Farm holidays and general strikes -- The President and his enemies -- Europe in crisis -- The ghost of the Monroe Doctrine -- European debts) -- 3. Pressure from the Left. Turning point (Opposition to the New Deal : from the grass roots of America's country clubs -- Populism, the real (King Fish) thing -- Labor's giant step -- The peculiarity of American reform -- Henry Wallace, the farmers' man -- The Popular Front against Fascism -- Antiwar moods -- The Eleanor factor, continued -- A New Deal for Indians -- The new public culture -- Monuments of the New Deal -- The face of American racism : J. Edgar Hoover) -- 4. WPA. New Deal at the highwater mark (The real (New) Deal -- Court packing -- Labor consolidates strengths -- The "Roosevelt recession") -- At the feet of Lincoln (Race and the South -- Relief and the public vision -- Health care -- New Deal failures -- The approach of war -- The approach of the 1940 election) -- 5. Doctor win the war (The war and the President -- The war and the Soviets -- Race and the war -- The New Deal completed? -- The arsenal of democracy -- FDR, Churchill, Stalin -- Yalta -- Shadows of the Cold War -- Henry Wallace, soul of the New Deal -- Harry Truman and the party bosses) -- Last days at Warm Springs (Lost hopes) -- Afterword (FDR as seen from 2010 -- Harvey Pekar on FDR's New Deal)