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      The Brains Trust

      by Rexford Guy Tugwell
      Published
      Oct 1969
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      538
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      The Brains 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. This book is a first-hand narrative by Roosevelt's closest confidant and only no-man.

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      First Edition Oct 1969 Viking ISBN13 9780670002733 ISBN10 0670002739
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