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The plots against the president : FDR, a nation in crisis, and the rise of the American right / Sally Denton.

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New York : Bloomsbury Press, c2012.

x, 272 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Prologue : A Beleaguered Capital.

Part One : Interregnum of Despair. Lofty aspirations -- Rebuild his broken body -- A new deal for the American people -- The tombstone bonus -- The forgotten man -- Warriors of the Depression -- Happy days are here again -- Brain trust -- Winter of our discontent -- Year of fear -- American Mussolini and the radio priest -- The Nourmahal gang -- Magic city -- I'm all right -- Too many people are starving to death -- Typical of his breed -- The bony hand of death -- Fear itself -- Bank holiday -- I want to keel all presidents -- Old sparky.

Part Two : To Kill the New Deal. A good beginning -- Time for beer -- A gang of common criminals -- Traitor to his class -- A balanced civilization -- Hankering for superman -- The Jew cripple in the White House -- We don't like her, father -- The shifty-eyed little Austrian paperhanger -- A rainbow of colored shirts -- Maverick marine -- I was a racketeer for capitalism -- We want the gold -- Coup d'État -- The bankers gold group -- The investigation -- Are you better off than you were last year?

Epilogue : The paranoid style of American politics.

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