In this issue: Author Diana B. Henriques on American Capitalism; "Stream of Life" Poetry Event; The Vow From Hiroshima Film Screening; Making Ends Meet During the Great Depression; Save Waste Fats for Explosives and #TheArtOfWar; Great Depression Facts.
Author Diana B. Henriques discusses the biography Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism, about FDR's battle to regulate Wall Street in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing Great Depression.
Diana Blackmon Henriques is an American financial journalist and author.
Poetry Event
ALOUD
Four Women Poets
Wednesday, July 17
6pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Poets including Susan Chute, Stephanie JT Russell, Nancy Shih-Knodel and Joanie HF Zosike will give a live reading in the the Wallace Center as part of the "Stream of Life" series produced by Stephanie JT Russell, Dutchess County Poet Laureate. Hosted by the FDR Library and the Home of FDR National Historic Site.
Free public event. Registration is not required.
Documentary Film Screening
The Vow From Hiroshima
Sunday, August 11 2pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
The Roosevelt Library and The Gillespie Forum present the award-winning documentary film The Vow From Hiroshima by Susan Strickler and Mitchie Takeuchi–an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate, 85-year-old survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. A question-and-answer session with the filmmakers will follow the screening.
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
Artist Henry Koerner was born in Vienna and came to the US after Hitler annexed Austria in 1938. Koerner designed posters like this one for the OWI and OSS
The "Great Depression " was a severe, world-wide economic disintegration symbolized in the United States by the stock market crash on Black Thursday, October 24, 1929. The causes of the Great Depression were many and varied, but the impact was visible across the country.
FDR Library members gathered recently for an exclusive after-hours reception and tour of the Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962 exhibit. If you'd like to receive an invitation for the next event with our supervisory curator and director, sign up for or renew your membership today!
"Whatever our individual circumstances or opportunities, we are all in it, and our spirit is good... and do not let anyone tell you anything different." FDR, Oct 12, 1942, fireside chat.
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