LEADER 04434nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910825466303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-79627-5 010 $a9786612796272 010 $a0-231-50577-9 024 7 $a10.7312/jane13108 035 $a(CKB)1000000000445325 035 $a(EBL)909003 035 $a(OCoLC)818856503 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153137 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11158735 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153137 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10340122 035 $a(PQKB)10763498 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909003 035 $a(DE-B1597)458968 035 $a(OCoLC)213305992 035 $a(OCoLC)979574435 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231505772 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909003 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183535 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000445325 100 $a20030626d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe fall of the house of Roosevelt $ebrokers of ideas and power from FDR to LBJ /$fMichael Janeway 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (592 p.) 225 1 $aColumbia studies in contemporary American history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-13109-7 311 $a0-231-13108-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-270) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface: Public and Private --$tTHE PARTNERS --$t1. Government by Brains Trust --$t2. Tommy Corcoran and the New Dealers' Gospel " --$t3. Making the New Deal Revolution --$t4. The Fight for the Rooseveltian Succession --$t5. 1945-The New Dealers' Government-in-Exile --$tIN MY FATHER'S HOUSE --$t6. Rise of an Insider --$t7. Ends and Means --$t8. Forbidden Version --$tRECEIVERSHIP --$t9. Enter LBJ, Stage Center --$t10. 1960-Checkmate --$t11. President of All the People --$t12. Last Act --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aIn the 1930's a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting. 410 0$aColumbia studies in contemporary American history. 606 $aNew Deal, 1933-1939 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 615 0$aNew Deal, 1933-1939. 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 676 $a306.2/0973/09045 700 $aJaneway$b Michael$f1940-$01757563 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825466303321 996 $aThe fall of the house of Roosevelt$94195453 997 $aUNINA