FDR's chief Brains Truster and assistant during his first Administration appraises the men and events that influenced national policy from 1932 to 1936.
This book looks at how this legacy, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises.
See Donald H. Grubbs, Cry from the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the New Deal (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 1971). 20. McElvaine, The Great Depression, p. 214. McElvaine uses film to great effect in ...
This book offers a brief history of domestic public policy since the New Deal.
In his thematic analysis of the implementation of particular programmes, rather than in a narrative of policymaking, Dr Badger explains the political and ideological constraints which limited the changes wrought by the New Deal.
He continues the story of these main sectors through the last half of the 1930s and traces their legacy down to the present as crucial challenges to the New Deal have arisen.
Also consulted at the Library of Congress were the papers of Frederick Lewis Allen, William Borah, Thomas Connally, Bronson Cutting, James J. Davis, Theodore F. Green, Frank Knox, William McAdoo, Gifford Pinchot, and Wallace White.
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