What year did this imaginary "recovery" occur, can you point it out?
Also, in the 1930's the US economy was just beginning to see the effects of transformative technologies of electricity, wireless communication and mass production. There's no excuse for FDR's failure
The economy grew like wildfire from the 1933 to 1937. Industrial and agricultural output had rebounded to close to pre-crash levels.
The economy grew when the Fed started to put back the money the siphoned out of the economy, no doubt.
Here are the US unemployment stats now think before you answer, but in light of Harding and Coolidge dropping US from 12% to 2% in 1 1/2 years, how is FDR's record anything but a failure?
1933: 24.9%
1934: 21.7%
1935: 20.1%
1936: 16.9%
1937: 14.3%
Unemployment was 20% for 7.5 years.
You said that.