On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington’s Capitol Plaza. “First of all,” he said, “let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” - Source: history.com
There is a cart of books on reserve in the library for this project. Just stop in and ask to see the Lehmann Reserve Cart!
Franklin Delano Roosevelt speeches:
First Inaugural Address http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstinaugural.html
Upton Sinclair The
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/sinclair.html
Huey Long Share the Wealth Speech http://www.ssa.gov/history/longsen.html
Father Charles Coughlin The Principles of Social Justice (1-16 only)
http://www.ssa.gov/history/fcspeech.html
Dr. Francis Townsend The Townsend Plan
http://www.ssa.gov/history/towns5.html
Harry Hopkins
The life, times, and health care of Harry L Hopkins: Presidential advisor and perpetual patient
By Theodore N Pappas and Sven Swanson
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0967772015588646
Harold Ickes
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2703296?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Norman Thomas
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23327653?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents