History Happy Hour: 1932 - A Very Eventful Year
Author and former Los Angeles Times staff writer Scott Martelle discusses his new book, 1932: FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America (Citadel/Kensington Books), in which he explores the national backdrop to that year’s pivotal presidential campaign between the incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover and New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat. The Great Depression was the mo