Body paragraphs exercise

Exercise:

Read the following excerpts from three academic articles and a review. Fill in the gaps of a short essay by giving a short introduction and three topic sentences.

Athans, Mary Christine. 1998. "Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio." The Catholic Historical Review 84 (3): 589-591. http://search.proquest.com/docview/200024507?accountid=17116.

Initially [Charles] Coughlin was an ardent supporter of Roosevelt, coining the slogan "Roosevelt or Ruin!" After Roosevelt became president, however, he did not look to Royal Oak for advice. Coughlin became disenchanted. In 1934 the priest founded the National Union for Social Justice, and in 1936 established the weekly newspaper Social Justice. That same year he joined with the Protestant evangelist and anti-Semite Gerald L. K. Smith and with Dr. Francis Townsend of California to found the anti-Roosevelt Union Party. Coughlin's theatrics during the campaign, ripping off his Roman collar and calling the President "Franklin Double-Crossing Roosevelt" and a liar and a betrayer, shocked Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

Fishwick, Marshall W. 1988. "Father Coughlin Time: The Radio and Redemption." Journal of Popular Culture 22 (2): 33.

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Not only did he [Charles Coughlin] attack the godless Russians, he also called upon American capitalism to eliminate the communist appeal by providing fair wages to workers.

Amenta, Edwin, Mary Bernstein, and Kathleen Dunleavy. 1994. "Stolen Thunder? Huey Long's "Share our Wealth" Political Mediation, and the Second New Deal." American Sociological Review 59 (5): 678.

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1935, the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was at a crossroads. The programs of his "first 100 days" in 1933 had failed to end the Great Depression, and criticism was mounting. From the left, Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana promoted a plan to "Share Our Wealth"; by February he claimed that 7.7 million had joined more than 27,000 Share Our Wealth societies or clubs. […] Share Our Wealth, the name of the program as well as the organization, had several goals. It would end the Depression by breaking the power of the rich, whose greed, in Long's estimation, caused the slump. The Long Plan (as the program was also known) limited the wealth of individuals to $3 million through direct taxation (McCoy 1967, 122-23; Williams 1969, 693; Brinkley 1982; Hair 1991, 269-76). At the same time every family would be provided with what Long called a "homestead": $4,000 or $5,000 to purchase a house, car, and radio--the necessities of middle-class life as redefined by the 1920s. Long also would guarantee an annual income of $2,000 to $3,000.

Richards, Raymond. 2007. "When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security." The Journal of American History 94 (1): 319. http://search.proquest.com/docview/224880844?accountid=17116.