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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope is a political history book by Jonathan Alter about the first 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. The book also focuses on how Roosevelt's childhood, personal life, diagnosis of polio , and early political life prepared him for those early days in which he established the New Deal to fight the Great Depression .
- Jonathan Alter
- 2006
Christopher and Kathy Riley’s groundbreaking book The Defining Moment: How Writers and Actors Build Characters, with a foreword by Christopher Vogler, introduces the role of defining moments in the creation of deep and resonant characters in film, television, theatre, and literature, then extends those lessons to the story of your life. The ...
May 8, 2007 · This book should be of interest to everyone who cares about the New Deal, and also to everyone who wants to understand the character of American politics." -- Alan Brinkley, author of The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War " The Defining Moment is a riveting account of the first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's ...
- (373)
- Jonathan Alter
- $11.15
- Simon & Schuster
Apr 15, 2006 · The Defining Moment covers the early events in FDR's life (growing up with an overbearing but loving mother, marriage to Eleanor, polio and paralysis, and the early political career) leading up to the heart of the book, his campaign for the presidency in 1932 through the 100 days.
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- Paperback
This is the story of a political miracle—the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown. With the craft of a master storyteller, Jonathan Alter brings ...
- Paperback
- May 08, 2007
May 8, 2007 · The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. The Defining Moment. : Jonathan Alter. Simon and Schuster, May 8, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 432 pages. This is the story of a political miracle—the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom.
May 2, 2006 · Alter is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope" (2006), named one of the New York Times 100 "Notable Books of the Year"; "The Promise: President Obama, Year One" (2010), which went to number three on the Times bestsellers list; and "The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies" (2013).
