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  title info:
    title: Unsurpassed
    sub title: the popular appeal of Franklin Roosevelt
  name:
    name part: Norpoth, Helmut
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Donald Trump's consistently and historically low approval ratings have provoked much discussion about why the US electorate finds him so polarizing. Moreover, his tenure lays bare the deep divisions in public opinion on federal policy. In striking contrast sits Franklin Roosevelt, the first president to be covered by public opinion polls. Roosevelt's average approval ratings surpassed those of every subsequent sitting president (with the exception of John Kennedy) and increased with time, a very rare achievement. Even US involvement in war did nothing to diminish his popularity. In fact, as this book argues, FDR's wartime policy and the broad public support for it was decisive in his third term run and win, even more important than the passage of the New Deal. As such, the FDR experience defied major paradigms of presidential politics. Yet Roosevelt has been ignored relatively by scholars of public opinion. What can FDR's experience teach us and his successors about rousing broad public support, particularly during wartime? What light does his success shed on the failures of Presidents Truman, Johnson and George W. Bush in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq? On key issues, mainly with foreign policy but also domestic, FDR had to contend with an American public that opposed his plans at the outset. Helmut Norpoth argues that Roosevelt had an unparalleled ability for leadership that enabled him to move the public to embrace his policies. In this book, he takes an in-depth look at how FDR's leadership swayed public opinion, comparing his experience to his successors and select foreign leaders, including Churchill, to draw broad conclusions about what makes for successful presidential politics.
  table of contents: Fireside leadership -- Guns and jobs -- First in popularity -- The wartime vote -- Making America safe for Democrats -- GI Partisanship.
  note: Helmut Norpoth.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)
      name part: 1882-1945
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Public opinion
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1933-1945
  classification: E806 .N674 2018
  classification: 973.917092
  identifier: 9780190882747
  identifier: 0190882743
  identifier: 2018005500
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180429
    record change date: 20190122120509.0
    record identifier: in00004015476