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1635767776 epub Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US History From the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs NixonThe Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies comes a dazzling panorama of presidential and political personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots racism, anti-Semitism, anti-socialism, and anti-communism, and the landslide referendum on FDRs New Deal policies in the 1936 presidential election. Award-winning historian David Pietrusza boldly steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelts unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, weaving an enormously more intricate, ever more surprising tale of a polarized nation of Americas most complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game and the unlocking of the puzzle of how our society, our politics, and our parties fitfully reinvented themselves. Read more