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Girls Leapt to Death Before Perkins Fixed America: Lewis Lapham

Interview by Lewis Lapham

June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Frances Perkins was drinking tea with a friend in New York's Greenwich Village when they heard sirens and rushed out to witness one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company on March 25, 1911.

By the time the last burning girl jumped from the high ledges of the locked 10-story sweatshop, the death toll reached 146, some no older than 15 years.

The tragedy galvanized Perkins as she rose to become Franklin Delano Roosevelt's secretary of labor, the first woman to hold a Cabinet post. Her 12 years changed the way workers, women, the unemployed are treated.

I talked with Adam Cohen, author of "Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America," (Penguin Press, $29.95), about Perkins and the other architects of the New Deal.

Our conversation at Bloomberg's global headquarters in New York included these topics:
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1. Urban radicals and militant farmers.
2. Hoovervilles and food fights at garbage dumps.
3. FDR's Emergency Banking Act.
4. FDR's openness and pragmatism.
5. The challenge for President Barack Obama.

(Lewis Lapham is the founder of Lapham's Quarterly and the former editor of Harper's Magazine. He hosts "The World in Time" interview series for Bloomberg News.)

To contact the writer on the story: Lewis Lapham in New York at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... wF_UGr4_.8