1932, David Pietrusza
1932, David Pietrusza
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1932
The Rise of Hitler and FDR-Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny

Author: David Pietrusza

Narrator: David Stifel

Unabridged: 19 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/30/2019


Synopsis

Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president—ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany faced two rounds of bloody Reichstag elections and two presidential contests—doddering reactionary Paul von Hindenburg against rising radical hate–monger Adolf Hitler.

The outcome seemed foreordained—unstoppable forces advancing upon crumbled, disoriented societies. A merciless Great Depression brought greater—perhaps hopeful, perhaps deadly—transformation: FDR's New Deal and Hitler's Third Reich.

But neither outcome was inevitable.


About David Pietrusza

David Pietrusza's books include 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR-Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny; 1920: The Year of Six Presidents; Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series; and more.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chase

Not bad, but I wanted to like this one more. Basically, there are two books in one: the first is about FDR’s election in 1932, and the second is about the Nazis’ rise to power over multiple elections by 1932. It is one chapter about each topic back and forth throughout. My favorite parts were about t......more

Disappointing, fairly long-winded book on two world leaders who were opposed to one another during WWII. The author points out that Roosevelt was not the leader we remembered, his love affair with his wife’s social secretary (Lucy Mercer), and his hard driven rise to become president of the United S......more

Goodreads review by Blair

'1932' is the newest in a long line of 'Annal Histories' by David Pietrusza, whose more recent work ('1920: The Year of the Six Presidents', '1948', etc.) has focused on watershed election years in presidential politics. In his latest outing, Pietrusza returns to a personality that had been a bit pla......more

Goodreads review by David

An exciting tale with an impressive amount of research. The author delivers what he promised, focusing on the political careers of both men without going into other subjects of the age that are not relevant to understand both men as politicians. The format where both stories are running in parallel i......more