Alsop Josph (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Whitledge Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.Whitledge Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. MEN AROUND THE PRESIDENT by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner, hardcover (no dust jacket), stated first edition, 1939. BOOK CONDITION: fair. The text block is in fine condition, with no marks, tears, or dog-ears. The pages and endpapers are age-browned. Deckled edge. Not a librar…y book nor remainder. Two names written on first free endpaper and name of previous owner written inside front cover. Tight binding. The red cloth boards are in fair/poor condition (corner and edge bumping, shelf wear, discolored spots on front and back covers, faded spine, and bumping to spine top and bottom). 7 ¾ x 5 ½, 212 pages, 11 ounces. XX Regarding Franklin Delano Roosevelts advisers, the 'Brain Trust.' [Info from George Washington University] The New Deal witnessed an increased role for intellectuals in government. The Brain Trust, a term coined by James Kieran, a New York Times reporter, refers to the group of academic advisers that FDR gathered to assist him during the 1932 presidential campaign. Initially, the term applied to three Columbia University professors: Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr. Within a few months, Basil ("Doc") O'Connor, Samuel I. Rosenman, and Hugh Johnson would join the group. These men would quickly help FDR develop an economic plan whose programs became the backbone of the New Deal: regulation of bank and stock activity, large scale relief, and public works programs for people living in both urban and rural areas. Moley, a professor of government and law who recruited the group, argued that a regressive tax (a flat tax all citizens pay: sales taxes, a flat tax on specific amount of salary, etc.) was the only way to rebuild the economy. Tugwell shaped much of the administration's agricultural policy, believing that the key to easing some of the depression's hardships lay in the ability of the federal government to address the growing imbalance between wages and prices. However, Berle rejected the idea of a planned economy but suggested a "new economic constitutional order" that would include a larger federal role in the balancing of the economy. During their first one hundred days in office, the Brain Trust helped Roosevelt enact fifteen major laws. One of the most important initiatives was the Banking Act of 1933, which put an end to the banking panic. After the Brain Trust defended its reform-recovery program in 1933, it disbanded to make room for other advisers and lawyers capable of legislative draftsmanship.
