New PDF release: FDR's Quiet Confidant: The Autobiography of Frank C. Walker

By Frank C. Walker, Robert H. Ferrell

ISBN-10: 0585004323

ISBN-13: 9780585004327

ISBN-10: 0870813943

ISBN-13: 9780870813948

Frank C. Walker used to be generally thought of to be Franklin Roosevelt's so much depended on and critical aide. From 1933, after Walker performed an instrumental function in his election, until eventually Roosevelt's demise in 1945, Walker held numerous posts within the Roosevelt management: co-ordinating secretary for the newly created New Deal corporations, Postmaster basic through the struggle years, in addition to nationwide chairman of the Democratic get together. A quiet, self-effacing and deeply non secular guy, Walker used to be raised within the tough western mining city of Butte, Montana. His modest potency stood out one of the usually clashing egos eager about the recent Deal and wartime management and led Roosevelt to divulge heart's contents to Walker greatly. A prepared observer of individuals and occasions all through his existence, Walker in his autobiography presents an intimate insider's view of Roosevelt. regardless of his closeness and loyalty to the president, he held inner most reservations approximately his leader. Edited and with an advent via historian Robert Ferrell, FDR's Quiet convinced is a very well-written and considerate paintings that offers a desirable portrait of a unstable time in American political historical past and may be of a lot curiosity to political scientists, and others all for America's contemporary earlier.

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The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. , 18861959 FDR's quiet confidant: the autobiography of Frank C. Walker / Robert H. Ferrell, editor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

She's ugly, you say, Old Butte is And grimy and bleak and drear? Why, partner, I never could see it, And I've lived here many a year. There's nothing pretty about her, But somehow she's strong and free, And big and rugged and well, comrade, She looks pretty good to me. 3 It is spread out over a series of hills on the slopes of the great mountainside. Vast dumps of gray waste ore from the mines, and dark blue-black slag from its mills and smelters, strike the eye on all sides, and for many years but few blades of grass or green of any kind have broken the monotony of its dreary-looking surface.

Nell, who later married John Gaul, was born in Centerville, and my brother Leo was born at the McNamara house on West Copper Street. Leo died as an infant. My sisters Katherine and Moll and my brother Tom, who were older than I, had of course been born back in Pennsylvania. It was from the East Quartz Street house that I started attending school at St. Patrick's, under the guidance of the Sisters of Charity, many of whom I came to know very favorably over the years. 50 a day received by the minersthe highest pay ever known to have been received by labor up to that time anyplace in the world.

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