I just started Amity Schlaes' book "The Forgotten Man" about the great depression and Hoover's and FDR's responses to it. I had already known that for the most part, Roosevelt took what Hoover had already done and quadrupled down on it with a few wrinkles of his own, mostly copied from Stalin and Mussolini. Most of that is stuff that was tried again in a small way by Bush 2 and then tenfold increased by 0bama. Same old stale statist garbage and getting the same results, taking what should have been another pothole in the road and turning it into a grand canyon.
I heartily recommend reading it, especially for any of the low information voters on this board who voted for 0bama in 2012.