The Lion and the Artist

✍ Scribed by Veronica Sommers

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B08BBN34PJ

✦ Synopsis

pt. 1. The education of a politician. A beautiful frame: The seed and the soil ; Groton: education for what? ; Harvard: the gold coast -- Albany: the young lion: Uncle Ted and Cousin Eleanor ; The race for the Senate ; The college kid and the Tammany beast ; Farmer-labor representative -- Washington: the politician as bureaucrat: A Roosevelt on the job ; Tammany wins again ; War leader -- Crusade for the League: Challenge and response ; 1920, the solemn referendum ; The rising politician -- pt. 2. The rise to power. Interlude: the politician as businessman: Ordeal ; Dear Al and Dear Frank ; Summons to action -- Apprenticeship in Albany: The politics of the empire state ; The anatomy of stalemate ; The power of party -- Nomination by a hairbreadth: The political uses of corruption ; Battle at the grass roots ; The magic two-thirds -- The curious campaign: The fox and the elephant ; The stage is set ; Roosevelt on the eve -- pt. 3. Rendezvous with destiny. A leader in the White House: "A day of consecration" ; "Action, and action now" ; "A leadership of frankness and vigor" ; America first -- President of all the people?: An artist in government ; The broker state at work ; The politics of broker leadership ; Rupture on the right -- The grapes of wrath: The little foxes ; Labor: new millions and new leaders ; Left! Right! Left! -- Thunder on the right: Thunderbolts from the bench ; Roosevelt as a conservative ; Roosevelt and the radicals -- Foreign policy by makeshift: Good neighbors and good fences ; Storm clouds and storm cellars ; The law of the jungle ; The politician as foreign policy maker -- 1936: the grand coalition: The politics of the deed ; "I accept the commission" ; "We have only just begun to fight" ; Roosevelt as a political tactician -- pt. 4. The lion at bay. Court packing: the miscalculated risk: Bombshell ; Guerrilla warfare ; Breaches in the grand coalition ; Not with a bang but a whimper -- The Roosevelt recession: Cloudburst ; Palace struggle for a program ; Roosevelt as an economist -- Deadlock on the Potomac: Squalls on Capitol Hill ; The broken spell ; Too little, too late -- Fissures in the party: The donkey and the stick ; The struggle for power ; Roosevelt as a party leader -- Diplomacy: pinpricks and protest: Munich: no risks, no commitments ; The storm breaks ; Roosevelt as a political leader -- pt. 5. Through the traps. The soundless struggle: The sphinx ; The hurricane of events ; "We want Roosevelt!" -- An old campaigner, a new campaign: The hoarse and strident voice ; Lion versus sea lion ; The two-week blitz ; The future in balance -- Epilogue. The culmination: Roosevelt as war lord ; Roosevelt as peace leader ; Democracy's aristocrat ; Warrior's home-coming.;This book is a portrait of the only man in history to win election to a third and fourth term as president of the United States. The symbol of strength and power to a nation besieged by war and depression, Roosevelt is described as one of the greatest players in the game of politics. This book is one man's view of his many facets.