Book Review: ‘Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal’

Book Review: ‘Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal’
Franklin Delano Roosevelt just after his landslide victory in 1936. Keystone Features/Getty Images
Herbert W. Stupp
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I have long admired the writing and fastidious research of historian David Pietrusza, but “Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal” is his magnum opus, at least to date.

Much more so than other Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) biographies, Pietrusza’s incredible inquiries and presentations of dialogue from the mid-1930s bring readers into America’s salons and streets, White House corridors and quarters, and Roosevelt’s homes in New York City and in the Hudson Valley to the north. One truly gets a sense of the epoch and also of the ebbs and flows of the 1936 presidential campaign.

Herbert W. Stupp
Herbert W. Stupp
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Herbert W. Stupp is the editor of Gipperten.com and served in the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Stupp was also a commissioner in the cabinet of NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Early in his career, he won an Emmy award for television editorials.
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