{"product_id":"the-fireside-conversations-america-responds-to-fdr-during-the-great-depression-9780520265547","title":"The Fireside Conversations: America Responds to FDR During the Great Depression","description":"\"My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.\" So began the first of Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous Fireside Chats, which came on the heels of his decision, two days after his inauguration, to close all American banks. During this address, Roosevelt used the intimacy of radio to share his hopes and plans directly with the people. He concluded by encouraging Americans to \"tell me your troubles.\" Roosevelt's invitation was unprecedented, and the enormous public response it elicited signaled the advent of a new relationship between Americans and their president. In this indispensable book, Lawrence W. Levine and Cornelia R. Levine illuminate the period from 1933 to 1938 by setting each of the Fireside Chats in context and reprinting a moving selection of the letters that poured into Washington from an extraordinary variety of ordinary Americans. In his foreword, Michael Kazin examines the achievements and limits of the New Deal and the reasons that FDR remains, for many Americans, the exemplar of a good president. He also highlights the similarities of the 1930s to our era, with its deep recession and a new progressive administration in the White House.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-5507086\"\u003eLawrence Levine\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10843987\"\u003eCornelia Levine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520265547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520265548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS036060\"\u003eUnited States | 20th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL040010\"\u003eAmerican Government | Executive Branch\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLawrence W. Levine\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Culture and Black Consciousness, Highbrow\/Lowbrow\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Opening of the American Mind\u003c\/i\u003e. He was Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley, and died in 2006. \u003cb\u003eCornelia R. Levine\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar. \u003cb\u003eMichael Kazin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Georgetown University and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDissent\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan; The Populist Persuasion: An American History\u003c\/i\u003e and other books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44443339030765,"sku":"9780520265547","price":44.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_8a3cf6c9-496d-4b5d-8b91-7c616908bf7b.jpg?v=1700228723","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-fireside-conversations-america-responds-to-fdr-during-the-great-depression-9780520265547","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}