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After Seven Years

by Raymond Moley. 452 pgs.

Contributors:

   Raymond Moley

Publisher:

   Harper & Brothers Publishers

Place of Publication:

  New York; London  

Publication Year:

  1939

Subjects:

United States--Politics And Government--1933-1945

	CONTENTS
	FOREWORD	xi
	CHAPTER I--THE BIRTH OF THE NEW DEAL Pre-convention: personal credentials; the birth of the Brains Trust; impressions of Roosevelt in the spring of 1932 ; organizing the Brains Trust; devising a program; the acceptance speech of 1932 .	1
	CHAPTER II--"GAYLY THE TROUBADOUR" The 1932 Campaign: relation of the Brains Trust to political managers of the campaign and to political contributors; how the Brains Trust worked; enter the party leaders; the tariff conflict; Roosevelt as a campaigner; campaign adventures; the windup; election eve; end of the Brains Trust.	35
	CHAPTER III--"A PACKHORSE IN HIS GREAT AFFAIRS" Election to Inauguration: the November, 1932 meeting with Hoover on international debts; personal relations with Roosevelt ; the attempt to get legislation through the lame-duck Congress; the December skirmish on foreign affairs with the Hoover Administration; veerings on foreign policy; the January, 1933 meeting with Hoover and aftermath; the legislative score; gathering crisis.	67
	CHAPTER IV--WILD SWANS AND FAITHFUL DOGS Personnel: how the cabinet was chosen; agreement to serve in office one month; the decision to withhold patronage; building an administration; diplomatic appointments.	109
	CHAPTER V--THE FIGHT FOR SOLVENCY The Bank Crisis: the shooting; bank crisis; the March 3, 1933 meeting with Hoover; the night of March 3, at the Treas­	138
	CHAPTER VI--THE HUNDRED DAYS Congress--1933: my job in during the Hundred Days; "social life"; relations with the press; acting as liaison on relief and public works; relations with Congress; the history of the Securities ; the N.R.A.; Roosevelt during the Hundred Days.	162
	CHAPTER VIII--"FOR KINGS CANNOT ERR" Conference: foreign affairs in March and early April; April conferences with MacDonald , Herriot and other foreign representatives; the decision to hold the Economic Conference in June; the conflict between domestic and foreign policy reaches a head in May; debt negotiations in May and June; the story of the Conference.	196
	CHAPTER VIII--LOST DIRECTIONS Out but In: resignation: Magazine; the routine reestablishes itself; the ; Corcoran and Cohen ; the appointment of Kennedy ; the "harmony" policy of June, 1934 ; the Freed dinners; the speech of October, 1934 ; Sinclair and the election; the program for 1935 ; the transformation of the program; the battle with Congress; Huey Long ; the Supreme Court and the "horse-and-buggy" interview; the "soak-the-rich" tax program; the beginning of the party split; mid-summer confusion.	270
	CHAPTER IX--"NUNC DIMITTIS" Withdrawal: the breathing spell; Italy , Ethiopia and internationalism; the breathing spell ends--January 3, 1936 ; the attempt to get a decision on policy; I prepare to withdraw; newspaper publishers and businessmen; "There's one issue in this campaign"; the preparation of the second acceptance speech; "nunc dimittis."	315
	CHAPTER X--SUMMER WITHOUT INCREASE Perspective: the campaign of 1936 ; the Court fight and purge; the crisis of indecision on economic policy, September 1937 --April 1933 ; foreign affairs; portrait of Roosevelt ; summing up.	350
	APPENDIX	41

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