In the 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition secured a realignment of American politics. The Republican victory on November 5 affords the opportunity for a new realignment: a Grand New ...

FDR’s “fireside chats” in particular endure as a model of astute presidential messaging. Politically, Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition of northern urbanites with southern whites was held together by the ...

After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

Realignments are seismic, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt creating the New Deal coalition, or the departure of Black Americans from the Republican Party during the Civil Rights era. They don't come ...

The Democratic coalition, encompassing racial minorities, working-class white people and youth voters, has largely lasted since former President Franklin Roosevelt formed the New Deal coalition to the ...

Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...

Franklin D Roosevelt won the 1932 election and became president at the beginning of 1933. He had promised America a New Deal to fix the problems of the Great Depression. There has been a lot of ...