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1932 represents a rare combination of scholarly rigor and relentless drama. This book ranks right up there with In the Garden of the Beasts and should be a must choice for every book club. -- Amity Shlaes, author David Pietrusza's thrilling narratives not only instill history with the richness it deserves, but they teem with intimate portraits and stories that make you feel like you're reading a great novel. 1932 is perhaps his best work yet. Which is saying a lot. -- David Harsanyi, syndicated columnist and author David Pietrusza's 1932 is history at its page-turning best: original, incisive, evenhanded, and impossible to put down. Great storytelling by a great writer. -- Kimberly Guilfoyle, Fox News A bifurcated, lively study of the year that saw the rise of the two most significant political figures of the early 20th century. . . .In this wonderful new history for lay readers, he tackles two rising political geniuses, one good, one evil, at their moments of election: Roosevelt and Hitler. Two unlikely men of destiny at the cusp of seizing power in 1932 and poised to shape historical events in their respective countries, they were able to overcome enormous obstacles-FDR his polio affliction, Hitler his lack of talent and general status of persona non grata-corral the necessary accomplices, and press forward by sheer and startling forces of will. While FDR and Hitler had little in common growing up-one hailed from the aristocracy and enjoyed every kind of family, school, and professional privilege; the other failed at most everything he tried, even spending time in a homeless men's shelter-both had adoring mothers, leadership abilities, and an ability to stir their followers by marvelous rhetoric. After struggling with his disability since the early 1920s, FDR did not feel ready to run for the governorship of New York in 1928, but his nominating presidential convention speech for Al Smith galvanized the Democratic Party, and Smith begged him to succeed him as governor. While Smith lost abysmally to Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt 'squeaked through to a narrow victory' and began his stupendous comeback, convincing the people of his vigorous health as well as the disastrous policies of Hoover. Hitler, having hit rock bottom once his mother died and twice rejected entrance to art school, found his conversion in World War I. As the author astutely notes, war became for Hitler a religion, and he began to cobble together his own lethal, unstoppable political force. A mesmerizing study in contrast and comparison. * Kirkus * "...excellent new book, 1932: The Rise of Hitler & FDR, 'Time heals some wounds'." - Carl Cannon realclearpolitics.com * RealClearPolitics *
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Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president-ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany faced two rounds of bloody Reichstag elections and two presidential contests-doddering reactionary Paul von Hindenburg against rising radical hate-monger Adolf Hitler. The outcome seemed foreordained-unstoppable forces advancing upon crumbled, disoriented societies. A merciless Great Depression brought greater-perhaps hopeful, perhaps deadly-transformation: FDR's New Deal and Hitler's Third Reich. But neither outcome was inevitable. Readers enter the fray through David Pietrusza's page-turning account: Roosevelt's fellow Democrats may yet halt him at a deadlocked convention. 1928's Democratic nominee, Al Smith, harbors a grudge against his one-time protege. Press baron William Randolph Hearst lays his own plans to block Roosevelt's ascent to the White House. FDR's politically-inspired juggling of a New York City scandal threatens his juggernaut. In Germany, the Nazis surge at the polls but twice fall short of Reichstag majorities. Hitler, tasting power after a lifetime of failure and obscurity, falls to Hindenburg for the presidency-also twice within the year. Cabals and counter-cabals plot. Secrets of love and suicide haunt Hitler. Yet guile and ambition may yet still prevail. 1932's breathtaking narrative covers two epic stories that possess haunting parallels to today's crisis-filled vortex. It is an all-too-human tale of scapegoats and panaceas, class warfare and racial politics, of a seemingly bottomless depression, of massive unemployment and hardship, of unprecedented public works/infrastructure programs, of business stimulus programs and damaging allegations of political cronyism, of waves of bank failures and of mortgages foreclosed, of Washington bonus marches and Berlin street fights, of once-solid financial empires collapsing seemingly overnight, of rapidly shifting social mores, and of mountains of irresponsible international debt threatening to crash not just mere nations but the entire global economy. It is the tale of spell-binding leaders versus bland businessmen and out-of-touch upper-class elites and of two nations inching to safety but lurching toward disaster. It is 1932's nightmare-with lessons for today.
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- VerlagThe Lyons Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2015
- ISBN 10 0762793023
- ISBN 13 9780762793020
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten544
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1932 : The Rise of Hitler and Fdr- Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2015
ISBN 10: 0762793023
ISBN 13: 9780762793020
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Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
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