The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle Princeton University Press, 2020 M07 21 - 344 pages The description for this book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980, will be forthcoming. |
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... economic events and social trends. Fundamental changes in political life—those which produce a change in party systems—are seen as issuing from crises in the nation's economy, social structure, and political culture. Thus the ...
... economic events and social trends. Fundamental changes in political life—those which produce a change in party systems—are seen as issuing from crises in the nation's economy, social structure, and political culture. Thus the ...
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... economic distress and political revolt. In probing why such fundamental historical events are required to change party systems, the new political historians have generally offered “ethnocultural” explanations. American voters, at least ...
... economic distress and political revolt. In probing why such fundamental historical events are required to change party systems, the new political historians have generally offered “ethnocultural” explanations. American voters, at least ...
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... economic circumstances allowed these capitalists to tolerate prolabor legislation on the one hand and to demand an international policy of free trade on the other. They were the ones who occupied the “backrooms” of Roosevelt's ...
... economic circumstances allowed these capitalists to tolerate prolabor legislation on the one hand and to demand an international policy of free trade on the other. They were the ones who occupied the “backrooms” of Roosevelt's ...
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... economic pressures of 1937, however, forced New Dealers—such men as Alvin Hansen, Marriner Eccles, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Thurman Arnold, and Henry Wallace—to articulate and defend their ideological vision. Such pressure yielded ...
... economic pressures of 1937, however, forced New Dealers—such men as Alvin Hansen, Marriner Eccles, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Thurman Arnold, and Henry Wallace—to articulate and defend their ideological vision. Such pressure yielded ...
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... economic and political strength. They launched “Operation Dixie,” a campaign to organize Southern workers, and they mobilized support for the formation of a truly “progressive” political party. “Operation Dixie” foundered on racism ...
... economic and political strength. They launched “Operation Dixie,” a campaign to organize Southern workers, and they mobilized support for the formation of a truly “progressive” political party. “Operation Dixie” foundered on racism ...
Contents
Toward | 32 |
The Labor Question | 55 |
The New Deal and the Idea of the State | 85 |
Politics and | 153 |
THE NEW DEAL POLITICAL ORDER | 183 |
The Failure and Success of the New Radicalism | 212 |
The Rise of the Silent Majority | 243 |
A Realignment | 269 |
Epilogue | 294 |
Index | 301 |
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