This chapter examines the political discontent of the time, with high unemployment rates and widespread suffering. It explores the tension between communist interests and industrialists, and how FDR saw this as an opportunity to restore democracy and economic fairness.
Journalist and author Diana B. Henriques discusses her book Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR’s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism.
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