Encore: Political Parties - The New Deal Coalition
- Podcast Episode
- 2020
- 45m
The 1929 stock market crash saw 14 billion dollars vanish in a matter of hours and with it, the Republican party's decades-long grip on American politics. As Americans lost their livelihoods... Read allThe 1929 stock market crash saw 14 billion dollars vanish in a matter of hours and with it, the Republican party's decades-long grip on American politics. As Americans lost their livelihoods, they turned to President Herbert Hoover for relief. But the self-made man who had so suc... Read allThe 1929 stock market crash saw 14 billion dollars vanish in a matter of hours and with it, the Republican party's decades-long grip on American politics. As Americans lost their livelihoods, they turned to President Herbert Hoover for relief. But the self-made man who had so successfully reversed his own fortunes seemed unable to do the same for his country.