Part 1 Introduction: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Liberalism 1
FDR: The Paradox 1
Hyde Park to Washington 3
New Deal, 1933-1936 8
Waning of Reform, 1937-1940 16
Liberals at War, 1941-1945 24
FDR: The Legacy 33
Part 2 Documents 37
1. FDR as President 39
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 39
First Press Conference, March 8, 1933 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 44
Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1935 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 47
Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 53
Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 58
Speeches on Conservation and the Environment, 1936-1937 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 64
2. New Deal 68
National Labor Relations Act, February 21, 1935 / Robert F. Wagner 68
Social Security Act, September 2, 1935 / Frances Perkins 72
Crisis in Agriculture, September 12, 1936 / John Steinbeck 77
Federal Relief, September 19, 1936 / Harry Hopkins 83
Federal Theatre Project, May 11, 1938 / Hallie Flanagan 89
3. Eleanor Roosevelt and American Women 93
Women in the Labor Force, June 16, 1938 / Eleanor Roosevelt 93
Women and the New Deal, April 8, 1936 / Molly Dewson 99
Women in Politics, March-April 1940 / Eleanor Roosevelt 103
4. Documenting the Depression: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange 108
Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta, 1936 109
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 110
Mexican Migratory Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937 111
Small Independent Gas Station during Cotton Strike, Kern City, California, November 1938 112
5. Right and Left Face 114
Challenge to Liberty, 1934 / Herbert Hoover 114
New Deal vs. Democracy, July 15, 1936 / American Liberty League 117
EPIC Plan, 1934 / Upton Sinclair 120
National Union for Social Justice, November 11, 1934 / Father Charles E. Coughlin 122
Share Our Wealth, May 23, 1935 / Huey P. Long 126
6. Race, Ethnicity, and Reform 133
Songs of the Mexican Migration: Deported [Deportados], 1933 133
Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, 1940 / Selden Menefee, Orin C. Cassmore 136
NAACP and Segregation, January-February 1934 / W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White 142
March on Washington, November 1942 / A. Philip Randolph 147
A New Deal for American Indians, 1938 / John Collier 151
Voice of a Navajo Indian, April 10, 1934 / J.C. Morgan 156
7. Constitutional Revolution 161
United States v. Butler, January 6, 1936 / Owen Roberts, Harlan Fiske Stone 161
Unpacking the Court, February 13, 1937 / Robert M. La Follette Jr. 169
A Greatly Dangerous Precedent, July 19, 1937 / Herbert H. Lehman 173
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, March 29, 1937 / Charles Evans Hughes, George Sutherland 175
Helvering v. Davis, May 24, 1937 / Benjamin N. Cardozo 180
8. Morale in Wartime: A Portfolio of Propaganda Posters 184
United We Win, 1943 / U.S. War Manpower Commission 185
Do the Job HE Left Behind, 1943 / U.S. Employment Service 186
Lookout Monks! Here's Your Plane Warning! 1942 / Packer Aircraft 188
Buy Victory Bonds, 1945 / U.S. Treasury Department 189
9. "Good War"? 191
Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, April 30, 1942 / Western Defense Command 191
Footprints: Poetry of the American Relocation Camp Experience, ca. 1942-1944 194
Korematsu v. United States, December 18, 1944 / Hugo Black, Frank Murphy 197
Debate about the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, May 20, 1943 / Pearl S. Buck, A. Leonard Allen 204
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, June 14, 1943 / Robert Jackson, Felix Frankfurter 211
Report to the Secretary [of the Treasury] on then Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews, January 13, 1944 / Randolph Paul 219
Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz, July-November 1944 / John W. Pehle, John J. McCloy 221
Race, Religion, and Prejudice, May 11, 1942 / Eleanor Roosevelt 224
An Economic Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 226.