Description: No modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR's administration, power shifted from states and localities to the federal government; within the federal government it shifted from Congress to the president; and internationally, it moved from Europe to the United States. Mary Stuckey examines the persuasive work that took place to authorize these changes through the metaphor of the good neighbor.
Brief description:
MARY E. STUCKEY is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, specializing in political and presidential rhetoric, political communication, and American Indian politics. She is the author, editor, or coeditor of twelve books and author or coauthor of roughly eighty essays and book chapters.
Review Quotes:
"Very few scholars, dead or alive, have the talent and the tenacity to offer a synoptic yet detailed understanding of FDR's remarkable rhetorical presidency. Mary Stuckey's The Good Neighbor is an extraordinary gift to a reading public still living in a world Roosevelt made."
--Davis W. Houck, Florida State University