Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal

When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different approaches to the question of the day: How could the nation recover from the Great Depression?  Professor Eric Rauchway join us to talk about the months before the hundred days, FDR and Hoover battled over ideas and how the divisive politics of the twentieth century were shaped.
Guest: Eric Rauchway is a distinguished historian and expert on the Progressive and New Deal eras at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of several books on the subject, including The Money Makers, The Great Depression and the New Deal, Blessed Among Nations and his latest Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal
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