Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Life During The Great Depression

The Great Depression was a difficult time for everybody during the late 1920s. It was a period of unrest, unease, and called for a total revolution on the way people lived their lives; the impacts of which can still be felt today. The Depression drew to a close as Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation on the road to recovery after being sworn into the oval office in 1933, the means of this recovery being through his New Deal for America. Though effective, but not quite to the degree Roosevelt had hoped, the New Deal faced much adversity from both citizens and politicians alike. No greater challengers to the New Deal existed other than Huey Long, U.S. senator and governor of Louisiana, and Charles E. Coughlin, a Canadian Catholic priest. Alan Brinkley’s novel, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression depicts these two individuals as protestors against the New Deal, and portrays life as it really was during the era of the Depression. The Great Depression affected so many people on many different ways. The economy crashed completely, businesses had to shut down, unemployment rates
He mocked other politicians, and used intimidation techniques to provide funds for highways, bridges, and universities in Louisiana. He spoke fervently about redistributing America’s wealth, but made no solid efforts to actually do so. After being elected into the Senate, Long began a movement known as Share Our Wealth, which promised a 100% tax on those with over one million dollars in their personal fortunes, pensions for the poor and elderly, and estates with annual income salaries for the neediest Americans. With such promises being advertised by Long’s charismatic personality, according to Brinkley, “Long was not merely attempting to pressure and cajole the Administration and Democratic Party, but was planning to supplant