1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny, by David Pietrusza
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Nominated for the American Library Association (ALA)'s Notable Books Council's 2015 Notable Books List Two Depression-battered nations confront their destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America elects a Congress and a president--ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany suffers 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.Readers enter the fray through David Pietrusza's page-turning account: Roosevelt's fellow Democrats may yet halt him at a deadlocked convention. 1928's Democratic nominee, Al Smith, harbors a grudge against his one-time protege. Press baron William Randolph Hearst lays his own plans to block Roosevelt's ascent to the White House. FDR's politically-inspired juggling of a New York City scandal threatens his juggernaut. In Germany, the Nazis surge at the polls but twice fall short of Reichstag majorities. Hitler, tasting power after a lifetime of failure and obscurity, falls to Hindenburg for the presidency--also twice within the year. Cabals and counter-cabals plot. Secrets of love and suicide haunt Hitler.Yet guile, ambition--and terror--may yet still prevail.1932's breathtaking narrative covers two epic stories that possess haunting parallels to today's crisis-filled vortex. It is an all-too-human tale of scapegoats and panaceas, class warfare and racial politics, of a seemingly bottomless depression, of massive unemployment and hardship, of unprecedented public works/infrastructure programs, of business stimulus programs and damaging allegations of political cronyism, of waves of bank failures and of mortgages foreclosed, of Washington bonus marches and Berlin street fights, of once-solid financial empires collapsing seemingly overnight, of rapidly shifting social mores, and of mountains of irresponsible international debt threatening to crash not just mere nations but the entire global economy.It is the tale of spell-binding leaders versus bland businessmen and out-of-touch upper-class elites and of two nations inching to safety but lurching toward disaster. It is 1932's nightmare--with lessons for today.
1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny, by David Pietrusza- Amazon Sales Rank: #485467 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.13" h x 1.62" w x 6.29" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 544 pages
Review "lively ... wonderful ... mesmerizing." (Kirkus [starred review])"1932 confirmed my belief that David Pietrusza is the best historian of our times. Deep, clever, witty, master of the subject."(Columnist and film critic Ivan Denisov)"excellent"(Carl M. Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief, RealClear Politics)"Sweeping and surprising"(John Batchelor, syndicated radio host)"Powerful! . . . majestic . . ." (John Gizzi, NewsMax)"well written, well researched . . . Pietrusza's easy informal style moves back and forth between the two [Hitler and FDR] expertly."(John Bicknell, executive director, watchdog.org) "David Pietrusza isn't just one of the best historians writing these days, he's one of the best storytellers--and his latest masterpiece, 1932, is another home run."(Matt Lewis, columnist, The Daily Beast) "David Pietrusza has done a brilliant job! 1932 is a great read. It's great history, a real page turner. In short, David Pietrusza continues to hit the ball out of the park."(John Rothmann, Former host, KGO-AM [San Francisco], co-author of Icon of Evil and Harold E. Stassen: The Life & Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican)"extremely well written and researched. Highly recommended!!"(Huffington Post critic Rob Taub)"a page-turner that puts history into perspective for readers young or old."(Ed Tant, The Athens Banner-Herald)"All momentous turns in history have an origin. 1932 explores the rise of Franklin Roosevelt in the United States and Adolph Hitler in Germany, two entirely different men who would clash to define the rest of the 20th century and beyond. David Pietrusza does a marvelous job of weaving the rise of these leaders with a rich narrative that reads like a novel. We all know the story, but Pietrusza brings it to new life." (Reviewer Jay E., NetGalley) "You can't put it down . . ."(Salena Zito, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's "Off Road Politics")"a well-researched tome on two unlikely icons of the 20th century who changed history"(The Cooperstown [NY] Crier)"riveting"(Author George Marlin, Newsmax)"the bar was set quite high for the author by those of us who awaited the release of this book. But the author once again lives up to his exemplary standards. In his latest work, David Pietrusza yet again displays his ability to analyze, distill, explain and supplement history's most fascinating years and its most fascinating personalities, and in the process he gives those of us who love to read history another excellent and enjoyable literary experience."(POTUS Geeks Blog - [#1 book of 2015])#RecommendedReading(Author and Basketball Hall of Famer Pat Williams)"a narrative that is both fascinating and original." (blogger Daniel Wright)"Thought I knew much about these two giants of 20th century leadership till Pietruza's new history with one focus: their simultaneous rise to power in 1932; a truly momentous year. Pietrusza fills in the gap that most histories skim over . . ."(The Heartland Progressive) 1932 represents a rare combination of scholarly rigor and relentless drama. This book ranks right up there with In the Garden of the Beasts and should be a must choice for every book club. (Amity Shlaes, author)David Pietrusza’s thrilling narratives not only instill history with the richness it deserves, but they teem with intimate portraits and stories that make you feel like you’re reading a great novel. 1932 is perhaps his best work yet. Which is saying a lot. (David Harsanyi, syndicated columnist and author)David Pietrusza’s1932 is history at its page-turning best: original, incisive, evenhanded, and impossible to put down. Great storytelling by a great writer. (Kimberly Guilfoyle, co-host, "The Five," Fox News Channel)A bifurcated, lively study of the year that saw the rise of the two most significant political figures of the early 20th century. . . .In this wonderful new history for lay readers, he tackles two rising political geniuses, one good, one evil, at their moments of election: Roosevelt and Hitler. Two unlikely men of destiny at the cusp of seizing power in 1932 and poised to shape historical events in their respective countries, they were able to overcome enormous obstacles—FDR his polio affliction, Hitler his lack of talent and general status of persona non grata—corral the necessary accomplices, and press forward by sheer and startling forces of will. While FDR and Hitler had little in common growing up—one hailed from the aristocracy and enjoyed every kind of family, school, and professional privilege; the other failed at most everything he tried, even spending time in a homeless men’s shelter—both had adoring mothers, leadership abilities, and an ability to stir their followers by marvelous rhetoric. After struggling with his disability since the early 1920s, FDR did not feel ready to run for the governorship of New York in 1928, but his nominating presidential convention speech for Al Smith galvanized the Democratic Party, and Smith begged him to succeed him as governor. While Smith lost abysmally to Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt 'squeaked through to a narrow victory' and began his stupendous comeback, convincing the people of his vigorous health as well as the disastrous policies of Hoover. Hitler, having hit rock bottom once his mother died and twice rejected entrance to art school, found his conversion in World War I. As the author astutely notes, war became for Hitler a religion, and he began to cobble together his own lethal, unstoppable political force. A mesmerizing study in contrast and comparison. (Kirkus Reviews)"...excellent new book, 1932: The Rise of Hitler & FDR, 'Time heals some wounds'." - Carl Cannon realclearpolitics.com (Real Clear Politics)
Review [In Rothstein], Pietrusza does a terrific job of capturing Rothstein's colorful career and sheds new light on [his] role in fixing the World Series, disputing the standard history. (New York Times)[Starred Review of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents] A rousing chronicle . . . Pietrusza . . . adds color and dimension with smart discussions of Prohibition, women’s suffrage, immigration, civil rights, the League of Nations and labor strife, and he offers animated portraits.... A hugely fascinating episode in American history, told with insight and great humor, by an author in command of his subject. (Kirkus Reviews)[Starred Review for 1960] Almost half a century after Theodore White’s The Making of the President, 1960, Pietrusza (1920: The Year of the Six Presidents) raises the bar with his winning and provocative chronicle . . . Highly recommended. (Library Journal)
From the Author 1932's richly-textured cast of characters includes:
- Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
- Adolf Hitler
- Herbert Hoover
- Reich President Paul von Hindenberg and his son Oskar
- Germany's scheming gray eminence Gen. Kurt von Schleicher
- Controversial radio priests: Detroit's Fr. Charles Coughlin and Pittsburgh's Fr. James R. Cox
- Populist Sen. Huey "The Kingfish" Long
- Nazi propaganda chief Joseph "The Evil Dwarf" Goebbels
- 1928 Democratic nominee Al "The Happy Warrior" Smith
- Wall Street financiers Bernard Baruch and Joseph P. Kennedy
- Peripatetic journalist Winston Churchill
- American press lord and Democratic kingmaker William Randolph Hearst
- Nazi Reichstag leader (and former morphine addict) Hermann Goring
- Speaker of the House (and reluctant presidential candidate) John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner
- Hitler confidante (and former FDR friend) Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl
- Columnists Walter Lippmann, Will Rogers, Heywood Broun--and the acerbic H. L. Mencken
- FDR advisor (and former Woodrow Wilson gray eminence) Col. Edward Mandel House
- Embattled German chancellors Heinrich Bruning and Franz von Papen
- Big city mayors James J. "Beau James" Walker (New York), Anton "Pushcart Tony" Cermak (Chicago), and James Michael Curley (Boston)
- Rightwing German veterans leaders: the one-armed Franz Seldte and the part-Jewish Theodor Duesterberg
- FDR's gnomish but adoring alter-ego Louis McHenry Howe
- Brain Trusters Rexford Guy Tugwell and Raymond Moley
- Nationalist German press lord Alfred Hugenberg
- Scandal-plagued Brownshirt leader Ernst Rohm
- Left-wing Nazi Party leader Gregor Strasser
- Stormtroopers Edmund Heines and Horst Wessel
- Bonus March leader Walter W. "Hot" Waters
- Hitler's suicidal women: Geli Raubal and Eva Braun
- AP reporter and Eleanor Roosevelt's confidante Lorena Hickok
- Eleanor's bodyguard State Police Sgt. Earl Miller
- German film star (and budding Nazi) Leni Riefenstahl
- US military men Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, and George Patton
- An array of stumbling Democratic dark horses: "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, Albert Ritchie, Newton D. Baker, and Owen D. Young
- 400,000 Brown Shirts
- 20,000 Bonus Marchers
- . . . and millions of desperate unemployed.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating Account of Two Improbable Rises to Power By Rule 62 Ken The great thing about reading history written in the exceptionally enjoyable style of author David Pietrusza is that we the readers learn so many things that we didn't know before. This is certainly the case in Pietrusza's latest work "1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR" in which Pietrusza traces the background of the two men who would be most prominent during the second world war, culminating in an in depth accounting of the year 1932, one which would lead to both men attaining the presidency (in Hitler's case the Reich Chancellery) of their respective nations.It was a time when, as reporter Dorothy Thompson had observed, "post-war Europe was finished and pre-war Europe had begun." Ditto for America, Pietrusza adds. It is a fascinating time for historians to study, but it must have been a very stressful and frightening time for those who had to endure it. In Germany, citizens were living through the aftermath of the first great war, and the devastating economic results not only of the war, but also of the Treaty of Versailles and the nation's reparation obligations. It was a time when politics were a mess, much more so than typically. Political allegiances were splintered along the political spectrum like light through a prism as hopelessness and despair caused the disenchanted masses to turn to whatever political direction suggested rescue from their fears. Fascism had taken root in Italy. It was a time when political strife meant more than just angry words and insults, as violence became commonplace within many political movements. Angry Germans looked for a target for their rage and many found one in the wealthy Jewish class. Through it all, octogenarian Chancellor Paul Hindenburg struggled to keep the country from crashing down on itself. Pietrusza generally has a remarkable ability to provide the reader with an understanding of complicated historical situations, and he very capably explains how Adolph Hitler, an Austrian-born misfit came to become a powerful Svengali-like figure to the masses and ultimately one of history's greatest monsters.Across the Atlantic Ocean, the prosperity of the 1920s gave way to the Great Depression as economic catastrophe struck the nation. Through it all, President Herbert Hoover transformed from the Great Humanitarian and the Great Engineer to a man out of his depth both in tending to the nation's ills, and in instilling confidence in and empathizing with an embattled people. Once again Pietrusza provides the reader with an understanding of how, against all odds, polio-stricken Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a man seen by many as a political lightweight, rose to prominence and popularity to capture the support of his party and ultimately the presidency.Normally Pietrusza is able to ingest a fair amount of levity and amusement into his books, but this task is much more challenging, given the subject matter of this book. It must have been a mentally exhaustive exercise for the author to research and write this book, especially given the volume of treachery and human misery that is part and parcel of the Nazi rise to power, not to mention the struggle for those living through the depression. The author continues to draw from his well-stocked cupboards of things most people didn't know before and many of these are strewn throughout this book. These include Winston Churchill's presence in New York at the time of the stock market crash, Hitler's disturbing relationship with his teenage niece (and her subsequent suicide), the animosity between FDR and Al Smith, Hoover's authorization of a Watergate-like break in of Democratic headquarters, and Eleanor Roosevelt's close relationship with journalist Lorena Hickok. I found his description of the 1932 bonus march incident especially interesting, and much more considered than usual accounts which generally place the blame on General Douglas MacArthur. Not so fast, says the author.Knowing how well Pietrusza writes and how good his previous year-in-review themed books have been (1920: The Year of Six Presidents, 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America, and 1960 - LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies), the bar was set quite high for the author by those of us who awaited the release of this book. But the author once again lives up to his exemplary standards. In his latest work, David Pietrusza yet again displays his ability to analyze, distill, explain and supplement history's most fascinating years and its most fascinating personalities, and in the process he gives those of us who love to read history another excellent and enjoyable literary experience.To paraphrase the myopic cartoon character Mr. Magoo, "David Pietrusza, you've done it again!"
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Nice History of a Strange Time, Concentrating on Two Key Players By Andy in Washington I have read a number of the “one-year” histories. I like them because they often explore events in more detail that more generalized histories, but I dislike the way they pick up and drop story lines at the January/December mark. I am always left wanting to know more about what happened before and after the year in question. This book was a nice example of the genre, in that David Pietrusza includes introductory material on how the events of 1932 were initiated.=== The Good Stuff ===* Pietrusza is nothing if not thorough. He takes us through the events of 1932, particularly as they apply to Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler, probably the two men who most drove the events of the next 13 years. Both rose to power at roughly the same time, and the book concentrates on their stories.* I have previously read quite a bit about both these men, but there was a lot of material in this book that was new to me. Sometimes that is a bit concerning, but a quick check showed that much of the new material was referenced by credible looking sources, although I did not follow through and actually check any of the original works.* The politics of Nazi Germany are incredibly tough to follow and understand. Pietrusza struggles as much as anyone with this task, although he does a nice job at it. He puts many events into context, and at least provides one plausible explanation of how these events related and the motivations behind the players. I am not sure he gets it right, or that it is even possible to do so.* The author tackles many controversial story lines, such as Eleanor Roosevelt’s marital relations, but does so without become sensationalized or judgmental. Instead he presents the facts and some analysis of how these events may have influenced history.=== The Not-So-Good Stuff ===I was reading a draft copy, so not sure how applicable these comments will be to the final draft.* The language in the book was too clever, and sometimes got in the way of understanding. As a brief example, in one section describing FDR’s actions, there is brief mention of “Straight-From-The-Shoulder Frank”. I assume this was FDR, and maybe it was even a common bit of slang from the period-but at the time I read it I had to pause and think for a second. Who?Similarly, the author refers to “Leopold and Loeb” to make a point. They may have been famous criminals in 1932, but I needed to visit to Wikipedia.* I also found some of the language and sentence structure a bit convoluted. There were a number of paragraphs that I needed to read several times to finally tease out the intended meaning. The net result was that the book was a bit of a “slow-read”, something I don’t like when reading for pleasure.=== Summary ===In spite of the shortcomings, I enjoyed the book, and found it worthwhile to read. I learned quite a bit of new information, and found several analyses of events that I had not come across before. Certainly, the language could have undergone another pass through the editor’s desk.I am not sure how much a “casual” fan or 20th century history will take from the book. Much of the analysis in the book requires the reader to have some previous knowledge of the events, and I would guess that this material simply passes the novice reader without their even knowing it. I wonder how much I missed myself.=== Disclaimer ===I was able to read an advance copy of this book through the courtesy of the publisher and NetGalley.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Two countries on the edge By Robert Fisher I've enjoyed some of David Pietrusza's other books on American presidential elections. He is a bit more ambitious here covering not only the 1932 American election but how Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany. Once again, Pietrusza delivers a fine popular history that moves at a brisk pace. The book is done in alternating chapters; what is going on stateside followed by what's happening in Germany. I thought his portrait of Franklin Roosevelt was interesting; instead of a titan, we see a vague, cautious figure and I came away with the idea that the New Deal was more improvisation than master plan. Pietrusza also does well following the multiparty intrigues in Germany. There are the schemers like William McAdoo and Kurt von Schleicher. McAdoo is involved in a stop-Roosevelt movement at the Democratic convention, but decides to support FDR at a critical moment (I've read McAdoo's autobiography. Let's just say Donald Trump would have liked this guy). Schleicher thinks he can use the Nazis, which ultimately proves to be a fatal miscalculation. Herbert Hoover is a one-time miracle worker who seems powerless against the Depression, but is hopeful of reelection because he thinks Roosevelt will be an easy foe (I understand Jimmy Carter's campaign team thought the same about Ronald Reagan). There are scenes of uncertainty and growing violence in both countries as the economy worsens and the politicians dither. One difference: many Americans still had faith in their system while Germans increasingly leaned towards totalitarian options. In all, I found 1932 to be an exciting and generally well written book. There were a few mistakes (the phrase is "ward heeler" not "ward healer"), but not enough to prevent a strong recommendation.
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