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Book

1932 : the rise of Hitler and FDR ; two tales of politics, betrayal, and unlikely destiny

Call Number

  • 973.917 P626 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2015.

Physical Description

xxi, 504 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

  • Cast of characters
  • "A gentleman cast himself down fifteen stories"
  • "I won't be ready until 1932"
  • "Everything should be blown up"
  • "Miracle man, Washington, D. C."
  • "They will remain hanging until they stink"
  • "He has never consulted me about a damn thing"
  • "Are you frightened of me"
  • "I will take off my coat and vest"
  • "A poison-painted monkey on a stick"
  • "The half-witted yokels of the cow and cotton states"
  • "Dear old man . . . you must step aside"
  • "The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid"
  • "There was little opportunity for air-sickness"
  • "Dammit, Louis, I'm the nominee!"
  • "Anti-semitism may be a good starter . . ."
  • "Soup is cheaper than tear bombs"
  • "He doesn't need a head, his job is to be a hat"
  • "The sinister faculty of making men like bad government"
  • "The swine within themselves"
  • "Climb on the mule"
  • "Herr Hitler, I will shoot"
  • "We always call her 'Granny'"
  • "I saw Hitler cigarettes"
  • "Vote for Roosevelt and make it unanimous"
  • "A primitive and stupid woman"
  • "You felt that they would do anything"
  • "Somebody hurled a spittoon."

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