Book
The woman behind the New Deal : the life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and his moral conscience
Publication Information
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2009.
Physical Description
xiii, 458 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
- Childhood and youth
- Becoming Frances Perkins
- The young activist hits New York
- The triangle shirtwaist fire
- Finding allies in Tammany Hall
- Teddy Roosevelt and Frances Perkins
- A good match
- Married life
- Motherhood
- The indomitable Al Smith
- FDR and Al Smith
- With the Roosevelts in Albany
- FDR becomes president
- Frances becomes Secretary of Labor
- The pioneer
- Skeletons in the Labor Department closet
- Jump-starting the economy
- At home with Mary Harriman
- Blue Eagle: a first try at "civilizing capitalism"
- Refugees and regulations
- Rebuilding the house of labor
- Labor shakes off its slumber
- The union movement revitalizes and splits apart
- Social Security
- Family problems
- Court-packing, wages, and hours
- Impeachment
- War clouds and refugees
- Frances and Franklin
- Madness, misalliances, and a nude bisexual water sprite
- The war comes
- Last days of the Roosevelt administration
- Harry Truman
- The Truman administration
- Communism
- End of the Truman era
- Many transitions
- Last days.