“Eleanor Roosevelt called the inauguration ‘very, very solemn and a little terrifying’--terrifying ‘because when Franklin got to that part of his speech when he said it might become necessary for him to assume powers ordinarily granted to a President in war time, he received his biggest demonstration.’”
The Coming of the New Deal, the second volume of The Age of Roosevelt, tells of the assault of the American government and people on the Great Depression during the turbulent years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term in the White House.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. Book of the month club edition (stated on dust jacket). Hardcover. Octavo. 669 pages. Dust jacket in fair condition with spine panel faded—in protector. Boards clean with minimal edge wear and some bumping to corners. Binding tight and square. Owner’s name on end papers. Pages slightly tanned. Very solid copy.
