false<![CDATA[The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179169754m/882337.jpg3329785Jonathan Alter's bestselling and critically acclaimed account of how FDR lifted the country from despair and paralysis and transformed the presidency for all time.<P><P>3235102006The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hopetotal:298|5:52|4:140|3:87|2:16|1:3|29811165969542falsefalseFri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Jan 18 08:26:46 -0800 2009Tue Jan 27 08:09:22 -0800 2009
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51falsefalseThu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Thu Feb 05 07:25:46 -0800 2009Thu Feb 05 07:33:17 -0800 2009 And it is a fantastic book. The author brings alive FDR as if we were living in the 1930s. From his personal history to his strenghts and weaknesses, and I really feel like I got to know...more...]]>
41falsefalseWed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009Thu Jan 15 06:24:24 -0800 2009Thu Jan 15 06:56:18 -0800 2009 So, I am starting off 2009 trying to at least read a book a week. It isn't a lofty goal, but something I could perhaps pull off.
"The Defining Moment" was week 1. I figure it fits right in there with the whole new Presidency thing go...more...]]>
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00falsefalseMon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sat Jul 25 12:44:55 -0700 2009Sat Jul 25 12:45:37 -0700 2009 Alter explains that he is interested in finding “defining moments” that made a permanent i...more...]]>
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30falsefalseMon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008Thu Nov 20 16:28:15 -0800 2008Tue Dec 02 07:33:09 -0800 2008 The writing style is engaging, clear, and interesting. Part of this is because Mr. Alter chose to use extremely short chapters, some only four or five pages long, to make the book seem to read faster. I'm not...more...]]>
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All of the excitement of the first 100 days of the New Deal have been
captured here by Jonathan Alter, a senior editor of "Newsweek". It is soon
obvious that the New Deal was not a well thought-out program,but rather
one which was pieced together as FDR saw what wor...more...]]>
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The Chicago Tribune admires Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter's "chutzpah" in taking up the well-worn subject of FDR's presidency. Critics claim that Alter supports his major "breakthrough"__that FDR toyed with martial law__with the flimsiest of evidence: an early draft of h...more...]]>
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20falsefalseFri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Dec 28 20:14:42 -0800 2008Fri Jan 09 23:18:44 -0800 2009 The majority of this book is not about the Hundred Days. It's mostly about FDR'...more...]]>
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