Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal

By Robert Shogan

On election night 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt was sitting on top of the political world. Within a year, two seismic events would transform the political landscape. A nationwide outbreak of labor unrest, particularly the spread of a new and potent union weapon, the sit-down strike, and FDR's launching of a scheme to overhaul the Supreme Court would combine to generate a fierce public backlash that tarnished Roosevelt's mystique and drained the lifeblood from the New Deal. This is the engrossing story that Robert Shogan relates so compellingly in Backlash.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566636744
• ISBN13: 9781566636742
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

American history and underlying political influences come to life in a vivid account.

BLACKLASH: THE KILLING OF THE NEW DEAL is required reading for any who would understand the history and changes of labor in America, especially the spread of unions and the decisions which contributed to a public backlash destroying the New Deal - a decision sparked by FDR's scheme to overhaul the Supreme Court. American history and underlying political influences come to life in a vivid account. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch