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Book    The    Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D  Roosevelt

Download or read book The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D Roosevelt written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States  F D  Roosevelt  1937  Volume 6

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States F D Roosevelt 1937 Volume 6 written by Roosevelt, Franklin D. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1941-01-01 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Book The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D  Roosevelt

Download or read book The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D Roosevelt written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D  Roosevelt

Download or read book The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D Roosevelt written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hughes Court  Volume 11

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  • Author : Mark V. Tushnet
  • Publisher : Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Release : 2022-02-03
  • ISBN : 1316515931
  • Pages : 1273 pages

Download or read book The Hughes Court Volume 11 written by Mark V. Tushnet and published by Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 1273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the US Supreme Court that explores the transformation of constitutional law from 1930 to 1941.

Book The Hughes Court  Volume 11

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  • Author : Mark V. Tushnet
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-02-03
  • ISBN : 1009032712
  • Pages : 1273 pages

Download or read book The Hughes Court Volume 11 written by Mark V. Tushnet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 1273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 describes the closing of one era in constitutional jurisprudence and the opening of another. This comprehensive study of the Supreme Court from 1930 to 1941 – when Charles Evans Hughes was Chief Justice – shows how nearly all justices, even the most conservative, accepted the broad premises of a Progressive theory of government and the Constitution. The Progressive view gradually increased its hold throughout the decade, but at its end, interest group pluralism began to influence the law. By 1941, constitutional and public law was discernibly different from what it had been in 1930, but there was no sharp or instantaneous Constitutional Revolution in 1937 despite claims to the contrary. This study supports its conclusions by examining the Court's work in constitutional law, administrative law, the law of justiciability, civil rights and civil liberties, and statutory interpretation.

Book FDR s Gambit

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  • Author : Laura Kalman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2022-09-13
  • ISBN : 0197539319
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book FDR s Gambit written by Laura Kalman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, engaging, and revisionist account of the Court fight that ties it to contemporary policy debates. In the last past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term conservative dominance of the federal courts have revived an idea that famously crashed and burned in the 1930s: court packing. Not surprisingly, today's court packing advocates have run into a wall of opposition, with most citing the 1930s episode as one FDR's greatest failures. In early 1937, Roosevelt-fresh off a landslide victory-stunned the country when he proposed a plan to expand the size of the court by up to six justices. Today, that scheme is generally seen as an act of hubris-an instance where FDR failed to read Congress and the public properly. In FDR's Gambit, the eminent legal historian Laura Kalman challenges the conventional wisdom by telling the story as it unfolded, without the distortions of hindsight. Indeed, while scholars have portrayed the Court Bill as the ill-fated brainchild of a hubristic President made overbold by victory, Kalman argues to the contrary that acumen, not arrogance, accounted for Roosevelt's actions. Far from erring tragically from the beginning, FDR came very close to getting additional justices, and the Court itself changed course. As Kalman shows, the episode suggests that proposing a change in the Court might give the justices reason to consider whether their present course is endangering the institution and its vital role in a liberal democracy. Based on extensive archival research, FDR's Gambit offers a novel perspective on the long-term effects of court packing's failure, as a legacy that remains with us today. Whether or not it is the right remedy for today's troubles, Kalman argues that court packing does not deserve to be recalled as one fated for failure in 1937.

Book The Will of the People

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  • Author : Barry Friedman
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2009-09-29
  • ISBN : 1429989955
  • Pages : 623 pages

Download or read book The Will of the People written by Barry Friedman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the justices of the Supreme Court have ruled definitively on such issues as abortion, school prayer, and military tribunals in the war on terror. They decided one of American history's most contested presidential elections. Yet for all their power, the justices never face election and hold their offices for life. This combination of influence and apparent unaccountability has led many to complain that there is something illegitimate—even undemocratic—about judicial authority. In The Will of the People, Barry Friedman challenges that claim by showing that the Court has always been subject to a higher power: the American public. Judicial positions have been abolished, the justices' jurisdiction has been stripped, the Court has been packed, and unpopular decisions have been defied. For at least the past sixty years, the justices have made sure that their decisions do not stray too far from public opinion. Friedman's pathbreaking account of the relationship between popular opinion and the Supreme Court—from the Declaration of Independence to the end of the Rehnquist court in 2005—details how the American people came to accept their most controversial institution and shaped the meaning of the Constitution.

Book For the Survival of Democracy

Download or read book For the Survival of Democracy written by Alonzo L. Hamby and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the Survival of Democracy" is a masterful retelling of the prewar crisis years that situates Franklin Roosevelt and America in the larger context of German, British, and world history--rendering the most accurate picture to date of FDRUs extraordinary leadership.

Book Franklin Roosevelt   s Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission

Download or read book Franklin Roosevelt s Foreign Policy and the Welles Mission written by J. Rofe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work explains the motivations and goals of Roosevelt through an analysis of the president's foreign policy and of the nature of the Anglo-American relationship of the time.

Book Transforming the South

Download or read book Transforming the South written by Matthew L. Downs and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long recognized the middle of the twentieth century as significant in the history of the modern South, owing to a convergence of social change, political realignment, and cultural expansion. This period in southern history has provided extensive material for scholars of race, gender, and politics. In addition, sweeping economic changes spread throughout the South, permanently shifting the area's material resources. Transforming the South examines this transition from farm to factory and explores the dramatic reshaping of the region's economy. Matthew L. Downs focuses on three developments in the Tennessee Valley: the World War I-era government nitrate plants and hydroelectric dams at Muscle Shoals, Alabama; the extensive work completed by the Tennessee Valley Authority; and Cold War/Space Age defense investment in Huntsville, Alabama. Downs argues that the modernization of the Sunbelt economy depended on cooperation between regional leaders and federal funders. Local boosters lobbied to receive federal funds for their communities while simultaneously forming economic development organizations that would prepare those communities for further growth. Economic reform also drove social reform: as members of historically disenfranchised groups attained employment in the new industrial workforce, they gained financial and political capital to push for social change. Transforming the South considers the role played by the recipients of government funds in the mid-twentieth century and demonstrates how communities exerted an unparalleled influence over the federal investments that shaped the southern economy.

Book Sloan Rules

Download or read book Sloan Rules written by David Farber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business triumph by virtue of his brilliant managerial practices and his insights into the new consumer economy he and GM helped to produce. Bill Gates has said that Sloan's 1964 management tome, My Years with General Motors, "is probably the best book to read if you want to read only one book about business." And if you want to read only one book about Sloan, that book should be historian David Farber's Sloan Rules. Here, for the first time, is a study of both the difficult man and the pathbreaking executive. Sloan Rules reveals the GM genius as not only a driven manager of men, machines, money, and markets but also a passionate and not always wise participant in the great events of his day. Sloan, for example, reviled Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal; he firmly believed that politicians, government bureaucrats, and union leaders knew next to nothing about the workings of the new consumer economy, and he did his best to stop them from intervening in the private enterprise system. He was instrumental in transforming GM from the country's largest producer of cars into the mainstay of America's "Arsenal of Democracy" during World War II; after the war, he bet GM's future on renewed American prosperity and helped lead the country into a period of economic abundance. Through his business genius, his sometimes myopic social vision, and his vast fortune, Sloan was an architect of the corporate-dominated global society we live in today. David Farber's story of America's first corporate genius is biography of the highest order, a portrait of an extraordinarily compelling and skillful man who shaped his era and ours.

Book America in the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey A. Engel
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-09-05
  • ISBN : 0691248745
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book America in the World written by Jeffrey A. Engel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations—now expanded to include documents from the Trump years to today How should America wield its power beyond its borders? Should it follow grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it work in concert with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? America in the World captures the voices and viewpoints of some of the most provocative, eloquent, and influential people who participated in these and other momentous debates. Now fully revised and updated, this anthology brings together primary texts spanning a century and a half of U.S. foreign relations, illuminating how Americans have been arguing about the nation’s role in the world since its emergence as a world power in the late nineteenth century. Features more than 250 primary-source documents, reflecting an extraordinary range of views Includes two new chapters on the Trump years and the return of great power rivalries under Biden Sweeps broadly from the Gilded Age to emerging global challenges such as COVID-19 Shares the perspectives of presidents, secretaries of state, and generals as well as those of poets, songwriters, clergy, newspaper columnists, and novelists Also includes non-American perspectives on U.S. power