Abstract:sending the country into mass unemployment, despite President Hoover's feigned optimism that it would soon be over. Food riots had broken out, with grocery stores looted and immigrants accused of stealing jobs from "real" Americans, resulting in mass deportations. In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was overwhelmingly elected president, promising the American people to be their "present instrument" for "discipline and direction," and he soon appealed to them to banish fear in his first of many radio "fireside c… Show more
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