The Great A&p And the Struggle for Small Business in America
“Chain stores were the least of his worries. America was in its fourth year of the deepest depression in four decades. One worker in four was without a job, the banking system was on the verge of collapse, the farm sector was a disaster. Roosevelt had won election the previous November as the candidate of hope. His defeated Republican predecessor, Herbert Hoover, had offered one program after another to ease the country’s distress, but nothing had brought improvement. With Democratic majorities ...in both houses of Congress and broad support among a desperate populace, Roosevelt had a commanding political position that freed him to try almost any policy he thought might extricate the country from depression and despair.
His ability to make a connection with average Americans was part of Roosevelt’s genius. The journalist Jonathan Alter put his finger on the matter: “While FDR knew how to say ‘My friends’ in several different languages and appear to mean it in every tongue, Hoover could seem as if he were addressing strangers even in a roomful of friends.” Hoover, one of the most accomplished men ever to occupy the presidency, had spent much of his life running large organizations in and out of government.MoreLess
His ability to make a connection with average Americans was part of Roosevelt’s genius. The journalist Jonathan Alter put his finger on the matter: “While FDR knew how to say ‘My friends’ in several different languages and appear to mean it in every tongue, Hoover could seem as if he were addressing strangers even in a roomful of friends.” Hoover, one of the most accomplished men ever to occupy the presidency, had spent much of his life running large organizations in and out of government.MoreLess
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