"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." - Franklin Roosevelt ~~~ When FDR was sworn in on March 4, 1933, the nation, and the world, were in dire straights. Nation's around the world had abandoned democracy for militaristic authoritarian solutions, and many Americans were tempted to join them. Radio priest Father Coughlin espoused an American fascism from the right, while Louisiana kingpin Huey Long flirted with a socialist form of dictatorial power on the left. As if t...

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32.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945

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28.B.) Woodrow Wilson's progressive legacy; an interview with John Milton Cooper

28.C.) Woodrow Wilson's legacy on race; an interview with Eric S. Yellin

28.D.) Woodrow Wilson, WW1, and the new world order; an interview with Thomas Knock

28.E.) Wilson's Wives, an interview with Paul Brandus

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29.A.) Warren Harding's affairs & legacy, an interview with James Robenalt

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30.A.) Calvin Coolidge turns PR into Presidential Relations, an interview with David Greenberg

31.) Herbert Hoover 1929-1933

31.A.) The political evolution of Herbert Hoover, an interview with Thomas Schwartz

31.B) Herbert Hoover, the first businessman president, an interview with David Hamilton

31.C) Herbert Hoover & the origins of The Great Depression, an interview with Robert McElvaine

32.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945

32.A.) FDR and the New Deal, an interview with Eric Rauchway

32.B.) FDR's death & the history of presidential mourning, an interview with Lindsay Chervinsky & Matthew Costello

32.C.) FDR, Traitor to his Class, an interview with H.W. Brands

32.D.) FDR's mastery of radio, the press, and persuasion, an interview with Harold Holzer

32.E.) FDR's policy of Japanese internment, an interview with Paul Sparrow

32.F.) FDR & American Grand Strategy, an interview with Elizabeth Borgwardt and Christopher Nichols

32.G.) Eleanor Roosevelt, an interview with David Michaelis

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33.A) The Truman Committee: An interview with Steve Drummond

33.B) Truman and the Bomb, an interview with D.M. Giangreco

33.C) Truman and the Pendergast Machine, an interview with Jon Taylor

33.D) The blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of Harry S. Truman, an interview with Judge Richard Gergel

34.) Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961

34.A) Ike v McCarthyism, an interview with Larry Tye

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