The Economic Thought of Franklin D. Roosevelt: And the Origins of the New Deal
New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it and benefited from it, including ...
This book looks at how this legacy, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises.
You’ll discover in alarming detail how FDR’s federal programs hurt America more than helped it, with effects we still feel today, including: • How Social Security actually increased unemployment • How higher taxes undermined good ...
An exploration of the New Deal era highlights the politicians and pundits of the time, many of whom advocated for questionable positions, including separation of the races and an American dictatorship.
Johnathan O'Neill's Conservative Thought and American Constitutionalism since the New Deal examines how various types of conservative thinkers responded to this significant turning point in the second half of the twentieth century.
An intelligent and able internationalist, the imperious Welles had never been on good terms with Hull, a down-to-earth Tennessean who resented the way his condescending subordinate seemed able to exclude his boss from high-level ...
In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United States—and explains how the social fabric of American ...
... David Cannadine, Mellon: An American Life (New York: Knopf, 2006), 509–15; and Burnham, A Law Unto Itself, 229–30. 36. John Morton Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of Crisis, 1928–1938 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959), ...
The genial Governor Crist was just as popular, but when he ran for Senate, a young conservative named Marco Rubio refused to step aside, bashing Crist for supporting the stimulus. “That was the moment I realized what was at stake,” ...