Looking Forward

Authors: Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Publisher: HarperTorch
BISAC/Subject: POL032000
ISBN: 9781443441919, Related ISBNs: 1443441910, 9781443441919
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 256,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

Published at the beginning of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first term as president, Looking Forward is a compilation of some of his best-known articles and speeches, and includes such chapters as “Need for Economic Planning,” “Reorganization of Government,” and “Banking and Speculation,” as well as his first inaugural speech. In Looking Forward, Roosevelt examines the financial and political structures of his time, and comments on the impact of these on economic development and international relations. Insightful and astute, Roosevelt’s commentary continues to ring true more than sixty years after his death.

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