The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: The inside struggle, 1936-1939

Harold L. Ickes was a member of Roosevelt's "inner Cabinet" from 1933 until the President's death. The first of this series of volumes covers the first F.D.R. administration. It is the rough, unvarnished, sometimes rude story of how the basic patterns were set, during something over a thousand days -- actually 1,330, for twenty unbroken years of rule by the Democratic party. Here is a new picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt which will disturb both his idolaters and his bitter enemies. Plus information about Henry Morgenthau, Henry A. Wallace, Huey P. Long, Alf M. Landon, William Randolph Hearst, and General Douglas A. MacArthur. His diary -- shortened but without a word changed -- makes caustic, often unkind, and fascinating reading. -- Amazon.com