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- Title
The New Deal Was on the Ballot in 1932.
- Authors
Rauchway, Eric
- Abstract
During the 1932 campaign, Franklin Roosevelt explicitly committed himself to nearly all of what would become the important programs of the New Deal. In the months before his March 4, 1933, inauguration, he made his proposed policies even clearer. Yet many Americans have forgotten this clarity of purpose, led in large measure by histories of the New Deal and biographies of Roosevelt that echo old misconceptions of this critical election. Such texts are far more likely to describe Roosevelt's campaign as so devoid of substance and full only of "sunny generalities" that at the time he took the oath of office his "plans remained largely unknown to the public." He had "no larger philosophy or grand design." He stood only for "action, any action, with little or no thought given to the long-term consequences." One historian recently declared, "The notion that when Franklin Roosevelt became president he had a plan in his head called the New Deal is a myth that no serious scholar has ever believed."
- Subjects
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; OATHS; OATHS of office; BALLOTS; TELEOLOGY; INAUGURATION
- Publication
Modern American History, 2019, Vol 2, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
2515-0456
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/mah.2018.42