Product Details
Touchstone, January 2009
Trade Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1439148694
ISBN-13: 9781439148693
Description
Published in March 1933 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first inaugurated, the classic New York Times bestseller Looking Forward delivers F.D.R.'s honest appraisal of the events that contributed to the Great Depression and mirror our own situation today. With blunt, unflinching, and clear prose Roosevelt attacks head-on the failure of the banking system and the U.S. government and sets forth his reasoning and hope for the major reforms of his New Deal.
Compiled from F.D.R.'s articles and speeches, Looking Forward includes chapters such as "Reappraisal of Values," "Need for Economic Planning," "Reorganization of Government," "Expenditure and Taxation," "The Power Issue," "Banking and Speculation," and "National and International Unity" in which Roosevelt argues for the reassessments and reforms that are needed again in American society and throughout the world today.
An inspiring beacon from the past, Looking Forward sheds critical light on today's turbulent world.
Democracy Now!, February 14, 2009
...I had felt that I could bring some very positive and instructive things to this administration and was looking forward to that. However, as we proceeded down the road here since the nomination was made, it?s become clear to me thatyou know, ...
PBS, January 20, 2009
...fixing the dismal economy -- and how Obama is taking a lesson from the history books. FMR. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT: Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. GERSH: You can hear Franklin ...
CNN, January 6, 2009
...a place to reflect on the nation's struggles, St. John's Episcopal Church is just steps away. Franklin Roosevelt prayed here before his first inauguration, and church leaders say Abraham Lincoln secretly worshipped in the sanctuary, ducking ...
