The New Deal: A Modern History

The New Deal: A Modern History
ISBN-10
1439154481
ISBN-13
9781439154489
Series
The New Deal
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
497
Language
English
Published
2011-09-13
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Michael Hiltzik

Description

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 FDR, Herbert Hoover, General Hugh Johnson and Harry Hopkins.

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