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The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ

Michael Janeway

Paper, 352 pages, 16 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-13109-4
$25.00 / £14.50

April, 2004
Cloth, 352 pages, 16 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-13108-7
$70.50 / £41.50

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Preface: Public and Private

1. The Partners

1. Government by Brains Trust

"God Bless You; Keep Scheming"

2. Tommy Corcoran and the New Dealers Gospel

"You're Beginning to Be an Operator-How Do You Like the Water?"

3. Making the New Deal Revolution

"The Sense of Being Special"

4. The Fight for the Rooseveltian Succession

"Douglas's Army"

5. 1945, The New Dealers Government-in-Exile

"I Got the Circuit Moving"

2 In My Father's House

6. Rise of an Insider

"We're Going to Get Hubert Some Dough"

7. Ends and Means

"Baby, You're Superb!"

8. Forbidden Version

"Continue Janeway Inquiry"

3 Receivership

9. Enter LBJ, Stage Center

"Average in Honesty, Above Average in Ability"

10. 1960-Checkmate

"Looking Back, the Result Was Inevitable"

11. President of All the People

"You Can't Deal with Him Any Longer"

12. Last Act

"We Got Your Man"

Epilogue

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About the Author

Michael Janeway is professor of journalism and arts at Columbia University and is the author of Republic of Denial: Press, Politics, and Public Life. He has been special assistant to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, editor of The Boston Globe, and dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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