04434nam 2200673 a 450 991082546630332120200520144314.01-282-79627-597866127962720-231-50577-910.7312/jane13108(CKB)1000000000445325(EBL)909003(OCoLC)818856503(SSID)ssj0000153137(PQKBManifestationID)11158735(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153137(PQKBWorkID)10340122(PQKB)10763498(MiAaPQ)EBC909003(DE-B1597)458968(OCoLC)213305992(OCoLC)979574435(DE-B1597)9780231505772(Au-PeEL)EBL909003(CaPaEBR)ebr10183535(EXLCZ)99100000000044532520030626d2004 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrThe fall of the house of Roosevelt brokers of ideas and power from FDR to LBJ /Michael JanewayNew York Columbia University Pressc20041 online resource (592 p.)Columbia studies in contemporary American historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-13109-7 0-231-13108-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-270) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface: Public and Private --THE PARTNERS --1. Government by Brains Trust --2. Tommy Corcoran and the New Dealers' Gospel " --3. Making the New Deal Revolution --4. The Fight for the Rooseveltian Succession --5. 1945-The New Dealers' Government-in-Exile --IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE --6. Rise of an Insider --7. Ends and Means --8. Forbidden Version --RECEIVERSHIP --9. Enter LBJ, Stage Center --10. 1960-Checkmate --11. President of All the People --12. Last Act --Epilogue --Notes --Acknowledgments --IndexIn the 1930's a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.Columbia studies in contemporary American history.New Deal, 1933-1939Political cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1933-1945United StatesPolitics and government1945-1989New Deal, 1933-1939.Political cultureHistory306.2/0973/09045Janeway Michael1940-1757563MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825466303321The fall of the house of Roosevelt4195453UNINA