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

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.";Depicts the events of 1932, marking the ascent of two political powers that would shape the rest of the twentieth century to come.;"1932: Two Depression-battered nations confront destiny, going to the polls to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America elects a Congress and a president--ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished 'Wonder Boy' Herbert Hoover. Weimar Germany suffers two rounds of bloody Reichstag elections and two presidential contests--doddering reactionary Paul von Hindenburg against rising hate-monger Adolf Hitler. The outcome: FDR's New Deal and Hitler's Third Reich. But neither was inevitable. Readers enter the fray through award-winning author David Pietrusza's page-turning account: Roosevelt's fellow Democrats may stop him at a deadlocked convention. Al Smith, 1928's Democratic nominee, harbors a grudge against his onetime protégé. William Randolph Hearst also plans to block Roosevelt's ascent to the White House. FDR's juggling of a New York City scandal threatens his juggernaut. In Germany, the Nazis surge but twice fall short of Reichstag majorities. Hitler, tasting power after a lifetime of failure, falls to Hindenburg for the presidency--also twice within the year. Cabals and counter-cabals plot. Secrets of love and suicide haunt Hitler. Yet guile, ambition, and terror may still prevail. [This] is a breathtaking tale of scapegoats and panaceas, of class warfare and racial politics, of massive unemployment and hardship, of unprecedented public works/infrastructure programs, of stimulus programs and allegations of political cronyism, of bank failures and mortgages foreclosed, of Washington bonus marches and Berlin street fights, of rapidly shifting social mores, and of international debt threatening to crash the entire global economy It is the tale of spellbinding leaders versus bland businessmen and out-of-touch upper-class elites, and of two nations inching to safety but lurching toward disaster, It is 1932's nightmare--with lessons for today."--Dust jacket.