Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history—the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR’s presidency, when he and his inner circle swept away the old order and reinvented the role of the federal government. When FDR took his oath of office in March 1933, thousands of banks had gone under following the Crash of 1929, a quarter of American workers were unemployed, farmers were in open rebellion, and hungry people descended on garbage dumps and fought over scraps of food. Before the Hundred Days, the federal government was limited in scope and ambition; by the end没有什么好怕的，给美国历史上的一个支点时刻带来了生机——罗斯福总统任期的前一百天，紧张而狂热，当时他和他的核心圈子扫除了旧秩序，重塑了联邦政府的角色。1933年3月罗斯福宣誓就职时，1929年金融危机后，数千家银行倒闭，四分之一的美国工人失业，农民公开叛乱，饥饿的人们纷纷来到垃圾堆，为食物残渣而战。在百年纪念日之前，联邦政府的范围和野心是有限的；到最后