The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
- ISBN-10
- 030780710X
- ISBN-13
- 9780307807106
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09-21
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Alan Brinkley
Description
At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose New Deal had made liberalism a fixture of American politics and society. The End of Reform shows how the liberalism of the early New Deal—which set out to repair and, if necessary, restructure America’s economy—gave way to its contemporary counterpart, which is less hostile to corporate capitalism and more solicitous of individual rights. Clearly and dramatically, Brinkley identifies the personalities and events responsible for this transformation while pointing to the broader trends in American society that made the politics of reform increasingly popular. It is both a major reinterpretation of the New Deal and a crucial map of the road to today’s political landscape.
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