New Deal

English

ISBN: 143915449X

EAN: 9781439154496

Category: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions/Business & Economics / Economic History/History / United States / 20Th Century/

Publisher: Free Press

Release Date: 05/13/2012

Synopsis: In this bold reevaluation of a decisive moment in American history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Hiltzik dispels decades of accumulated myths and misconceptions to capture its origins, its legacy, and its genius.Franklin Roosevelts New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal governments role in Americans lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to define America to this day. Hiltzik offers an intimate look at the alchemy that allowed FDR to mold his multifaceted and contentious inner circle into a formidable political team, showing how he commanded the loyalty of the rock-ribbed fiscal conservative Lewis Douglas and the radical agrarian Rexford Tugwell alike; of Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins, one a curmudgeonly miser, the other a spendthrift idealist; of Henry Morgenthau, gentleman farmer of upstate New York; and of Frances Perkins, a prim social activist with her roots in Brahmin New England. Yet the same character traits that made him so supple and self-confident a leader would sow the seeds of the New Deals end. Understanding the New Deal may be more important today than at any time in the last eight decades . Conceived in response to a devastating financial crisis very similar to Americas most recent downturn, the New Deal remade the countrys economic and political environment in six years of intensive experimentation. FDR had no effective model for fighting the worst economic downturn in his generations experience; but the New Deal has provided a model for subsequent presidents who faced challenging economic conditions, right up to the present.

New Deal

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.4 inches

Width: 5.94 inches

Length: 9.06 inches

Weight: 22.43 oz

Pages: 512