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100 1 $aJaneway, Michael,$d1940-
245 14 $aThe fall of the house of Roosevelt :$bbrokers of ideas and power from FDR to LBJ /$cMichael Janeway.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2004.
300 $axiv, 284 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aColumbia studies in contemporary American history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-270) and index.
505 00 $gThe partners --$tGovernment by brains trust --$tTommy Corcoran and the New Dealers' gospel --$tMaking the new deal revolution --$tThe fight for the Rooseveltian succession --$t1945-The New Dealers' government in-exile -- $gIn my father's house --$tRise of an insider --$tEnds and means --$tForbidden version --$tReceivership --$tEnter LBJ, stage center --$t1960-Checkmate -- $tPresident of all the people --$tLast act.
520 $aIn the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time, efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.
600 10 $aRoosevelt, Franklin D.$q(Franklin Delano),$d1882-1945$xInfluence.
600 10 $aRoosevelt, Franklin D.$q(Franklin Delano),$d1882-1945$xFriends and associates.
600 10 $aJohnson, Lyndon B.$q(Lyndon Baines),$d1908-1973.
600 10 $aJaneway, Eliot.
600 10 $aJaneway, Elizabeth.
600 10 $aJaneway, Michael,$d1940- $xChildhood and youth.
650 0 $aNew Deal, 1933-1939.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.
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