Lecture series introduces the dynamic process of American history with first-person narratives, photos, film footage, documents, round-table discussions and debates. Presenter, Douglas Brinkley ; historians, Donald L. Miller, Pauline Maier, Louis P. Masur, Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Virginia Scharff. In disc with: World War II -- Fifties -- Sixties.
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Hard times in the land of plenty -- 3. FDR and the New Deal -- 4. Dorothea Lange -- 5. The WPA, the AAA, and the CCC -- 6. Eleanor Roosevelt -- 7. Roosevelt critics -- 8. Labor strikes -- 9. Social Security Act -- 10. End of the New Deal.
Summary:
A profile of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his programmatic and personal efforts to help the country during its worst economic crisis, the Great Depression. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt is at his side, and in many respects ahead of him, as the decade unfolds.
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