Table of Contents Publisher’s Note ...... ix Editor’s Introduction ...... xi Contributors ...... xv
Setting Up the New Deal
President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on “The Forgotten Man” ...... 1 FDR on Government’s Role in the Economy ...... 5 Herbert Hoover Speaks Against the New Deal ...... 15 Letter From Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt ...... 27 President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat Outlining the New Deal ...... 31 John Maynard Keynes: An Open Letter to President Roosevelt ...... 38 Letter-Report Concerning the Tennessee Valley ...... 45 FDR on Social Security ...... 51 Speech Against the President’s “ Court Packing” Plan ...... 57 President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on the Current Recession...... 66 The Hatch Act ...... 75
Unemployment and Relief
Bumming in California ...... 83 United We Eat—The Phenomenon of Unemployed Leagues ...... 88 Letter From a Dust Bowl Survivor ...... 97 Letter Regarding Assistance to the Poor ...... 100 Memories of the Flint Sit-Down Strike ...... 104 It’s a Great Life in the CCC ...... 109 I’d Rather Not Be on Relief ...... 113 What REA Service Means to Our Farm Home ...... 117 My Hopes for the CCC ...... 121
Women, Minorities, and Youth
Women on the Breadlines ...... 131 Eleanor Roosevelt: What Ten MiIllion Women Want ...... 134
v Eleanor Roosevelt on Women and the Vote ...... 140 The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans ...... 146 The Hurricane of 1932 in Puerto Rico ...... 149 A New Deal for American Indians ...... 156 Indians at Work ...... 160 A Negro in the CCC ...... 170 Letter Regarding the Needs of Puerto Ricans in New York ...... 176 Plea from a Scottsboro Boy ...... 179 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt ...... 182 Our Jobless Youth: A Warning ...... 186 What Does American Democracy Mean to Me? ...... 194
The Bonus Army
Herbert Hoover to Reed Smoot Regarding the Bonus Loan Bill ...... 201 Attack on the Bonus Army ...... 205 Veterans March to Washington ...... 209
Foreign Policy
Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty ...... 217 Criticism of the Neutrality Act ...... 223 Neutrality Act of 1935 ...... 227 Defense of the Neutrality Act ...... 233 Address Delivered by the Secretary of State ...... 239 Winston Churchill: The Lights are Going Out in Europe ...... 248 Winston Churchill: A Hush Over Europe ...... 254 Charles Lindbergh: Neutrality and War ...... 259
Culture, Crime, and More
The National Anthem Established: The Star Spangled Banner ...... 265 What I Knew About John Dillinger ...... 269 The Hindenburg Disaster ...... 275 From the Federal Writers’ Project: Cape Cod Pilot ...... 278
vi On The War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast ...... 286 Lou Gehrig: Farewell to Baseball ...... 294
Appendixes
Chronological List ...... 299 Web Resources ...... 301 Bibliography ...... 303 Index ...... 309
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