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The New Deal era is hard to define with precision—in time or in ideology. Some historians use New Deal to designate the intense period of domestic reform legislation of the first Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, 1933-37. Others confine discussion of the era to the legislation of 1933, and identify another wave of legislation in 1935 as a Second New Deal. Most of the essays in this book focus on the prewar period, with glimpses that look forward to the rhetoric of the approach to and engagement in World War II.
Contents
ContentsIntroduction: American Rhetoric in the New Deal EraThomas W. Benson0001.No Ordinary Rhetorical President: FDR¿s Speechmaking and Leadership, 1933-1945Vanessa B. Beasley and Deborah Smith-Howell0002.FDR as Family Doctor: Medical Metaphors and the Role of Physician in the Fireside ChatsSuzanne M. Daughton0003.Dictator, Savior, and the Return of Confidence: Text, Context, and Reception in FDR¿s First Inaugural AddressDavis W. Houck and Mihaela Nocasian0004.FSA Photography and New Deal Visual CultureCara Finnegan0005.Eleanor Roosevelt: Social Conscience for the New DealBeth M. Waggenspack0006.The Rhetoric of Social Security and Conservative Backlash: Frances Perkins as Secretary of LaborAnn Atkinson0007.Necessity or Nine Old Men: The Congressional Debate over Franklin D. Roosevelt¿s 1937 Court-Packing PlanTrevor Parry-Giles and Marouf Hasian Jr. 0008.The Thundering Voice of John L. LewisRichard J. Jensen0009.Father Charles E. Coughlin: Delivery, Style in Discourse, and Opinion LeadershipRonald H. Carpenter00010.Reconsidering the Demagoguery of Huey LongRobert S. Iltis00011.Resisting the ¿Inevitability¿ of War: The Catholic Worker Movement and World War IICarol J. Jablonski000Bibliography000About the Authors000Index000
