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A 3 page book review of this text, which was originally published in 1979. Historian Robert Dallek offers not only a comprehensive overview of each FDR’s various administrations, but he also provides fascinating details that give the modern reader insight into the policy formation and its relationship to the visions of a particular president. No other sources cited.
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only a comprehensive overview of each FDRs various administrations, but he also provides fascinating details that give the modern reader insight into the policy formation and its relationship to the
visions of a particular president. Dalleks fundamental premise is that Roosevelts basic outlook was that of an internationalist. His text is structured by subdividing Roosevelts presidency into four major
periods. In Part One, Dallek shows how Roosevelt functioned as a nationalist from 1932-1934. The author begins by describing the international situation and how the outgoing President Hoover saw
domestic recovery form the Great Depression in terns of "swapping debt reductions for a restoration of the international gold standard or currency stabilization."1 Hoover requested a meeting with Roosevelt in
order to convey his plans for recovery, which was an invitation that Roosevelt accepted with some hesitation, as he did not wish to be associated in the minds of the
public with what he perceived as the "prime contributor to the countrys mood of gloom."2 Roosevelts response to Hoovers initiatives made it clear that his administration would not pursue Hoovers
plan to cure the Depression through negotiations on the world economic stage. As these details suggest, Dalleks insightful commentary gives the reader insight into the machinations of policy formation and
the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period in the nations history. This portrait, however, is often unflattering to
the idealized image of FDR that continues in the national consciousness. Dallek shows Roosevelt to have often vacillated and that he was inconsistent in many of his policies meant to
remedy the despair of the Great Depression. The understanding that the reader evolves from this commentary is that even to speak of foreign policy in relation to the 1930s is
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