FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America

'[A] superb study of the way FDR successfully created a presidency that could renew America' - Times Literary Supplement

One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and African American voters that underwrote the Democratic Party's national ascendancy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his four terms, he promoted the New Deal – the greatest reform programme in US history – to meet the challenges of the Great Depress...