FDR Before The New Deal
About this episode
The episode explores Franklin Roosevelt's political journey before the New Deal, highlighting key speeches and events leading up to his 1932 nomination.
Franklin Roosevelt is usually introduced as the New Deal president, but we wanted to rewind the tape and look at the receipts. With Dr. Sean Beienberg joining us, we walk through FDR’s pre-1933 record and the political path that takes him from New York power circles into the 1932 nomination. The deeper we read, the clearer it becomes: the “standard story” omits a lot of inconvenient text. We dig into Roosevelt’s 1929 to 1930 federalism and states’ rights speeches, including a radio address i...
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