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Roosevelt's warrior : Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal / Jeanne Nienaber Clarke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996.Description: xvii, 414 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0801850940 (acid-free paper)
  • 9780801850943 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E748.I28 C53 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The Great Transformation: From Altoona to the Nation's Capital -- 2. "Is Mr. Ickes Here?": The Appointment -- 3. "Form Your Ranks and Fight!": The 100 Days -- 4. "To Rival Cheops": The New Public Works Administrator -- 5. Over a Barrel: Ickes's Oil Administration -- 6. The Juggler: Interior, Oil, and Public Works -- 7. "A Dash for the Timber": Agriculture and Conservation -- 8. "I Am Not a Boondoggler": In the Ring with Harry Hopkins -- 9. "Back to Work": Planning, Politics, and the PWA -- 10. "I Struck a Real Note": The Liberal Lightning Rod -- 11. The New Deal Triumphant: The 1936 Election -- 12. "A First Class Fight on His Hands": Court Attacks and Heart Attacks -- 13. "Facing the Common Enemy": Circling the Wagons -- 14. "Nations in Nightshirts": Recession and Racism -- 15. The Calm after the Storm: Departmental Woes and a Dublin Wedding -- 16. "To Sail, Not Drift": The Challenge of 1938 -- 17. Battle for the Big Trees: Forests versus Parks -- 18. His Finest Hour: In Defense of Civil Liberties and Rights -- 19. Ickes's Book of Revelations: The Personal Memoirs -- 20. "Then It's Happened": War in Europe -- 21. The Secretary and the Sun President.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-404 ) and index.

1. The Great Transformation: From Altoona to the Nation's Capital -- 2. "Is Mr. Ickes Here?": The Appointment -- 3. "Form Your Ranks and Fight!": The 100 Days -- 4. "To Rival Cheops": The New Public Works Administrator -- 5. Over a Barrel: Ickes's Oil Administration -- 6. The Juggler: Interior, Oil, and Public Works -- 7. "A Dash for the Timber": Agriculture and Conservation -- 8. "I Am Not a Boondoggler": In the Ring with Harry Hopkins -- 9. "Back to Work": Planning, Politics, and the PWA -- 10. "I Struck a Real Note": The Liberal Lightning Rod -- 11. The New Deal Triumphant: The 1936 Election -- 12. "A First Class Fight on His Hands": Court Attacks and Heart Attacks -- 13. "Facing the Common Enemy": Circling the Wagons -- 14. "Nations in Nightshirts": Recession and Racism -- 15. The Calm after the Storm: Departmental Woes and a Dublin Wedding -- 16. "To Sail, Not Drift": The Challenge of 1938 -- 17. Battle for the Big Trees: Forests versus Parks -- 18. His Finest Hour: In Defense of Civil Liberties and Rights -- 19. Ickes's Book of Revelations: The Personal Memoirs -- 20. "Then It's Happened": War in Europe -- 21. The Secretary and the Sun President.