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The Age of Roosevelt: The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-1933
The Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt covered much more than the dozen years of his Presidency. The events of 1933-45 climaxed half a century of American life. The nation, in responding to the bitter challenges of depression and war, summoned up the resources, moral and intellectual, of an earlier progressivism, an earlier war effort, and a decade of business leadership. Roosevelt’s administration must be understood against this background of a generation’s ideas, hopes, and experience.
This is, I suppose, a bad time to be writing about Franklin Roosevelt. As historians well know, the reputation of a commanding figure is often at its lowest in the period ten to twenty years after his death. We are always in a zone of imperfect visibility so far as the history just over our shoulder is concerned.
This book claims no capacity to transcend these limitations. No one knows better than the author the inadequacy of the present perspective for any sort of lasting judgment. There are, however, compensating advantages in writing so soon-in particular, the opportunity to consult those who took part in great events and thus to rescue information which might otherwise elude the written record.
A grant from the Guggenheim Foundation enabled me to begin work on this project; and grants from the Milton Fund at Harvard were of material assistance at later stages.
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