Presidential Politics in the Depression Decade
November 1, 2012–June 2, 2013
The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue
This installation looked back on the presidential campaigns of the Depression decade. Political posters, pamphlets, periodicals, and leaflets from 1932 contrasted the incumbent Herbert Hoover with his democratic challenger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while stickers, cartoons, and political literature from the 1936 presidential elections either red-baited FDR or attacked him as a spendthrift, a demagogue, and a dictator. Roosevelt and the Democratic Party responded with an aggressive defense of the President and his record in sheet music, periodicals, and other political propaganda.
