History speaks Franklin Delano Roosevelt / with introductions by Clifton Fadiman.
Thirty-nine of the major addresses delivered by President Roosevelt between 1933 and 1941.
| Uniform Title: | Speeches. Selections |
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| Language: | English |
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Camp Hill, Pa. :
Book-of-the-Month Records,
1984.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 audio file (3 hr., 44 min., 54 sec.)) |
| Format: | Electronic Audio Software |
Contents:
- Addressing the problems of depression. Calling for an awakened social consciousness in America. As the depression persists continuing the attack against the "haves"
- Constructing a "democracy that works" as a bulwark against totalitarianism. Balancing ends and means: Refusing to lose the baby with the bathwater. Defining the soul and spirit of America
- Though America remains technically neutral FDR sees Nazism as threat to all of civilization. America enters WWII: FDR sees a newer, better, more permanent society arising out of ashes of the war. Protecting the social and economic reforms from the pressures of wartime. Hope for the future.