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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Brinkley, Alan. End of reform. New York : Vintage Books, [1996] (DLC) 94021478 (OCoLC)34198713 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Brinkley |
ISBN: | 9780307807106 030780710X 1299043186 9781299043183 |
OCLC Number: | 1085905834 |
Notes: | Originally published: Knopf, 1995. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2019. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 371 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction : the concept of New Deal liberalism -- The crisis of New Deal liberalism -- "An ordered economic world" -- The "New Dealers" and the regulatory impulse -- Spending and consumption -- The struggle for a program -- The anti-monopoly moment -- Liberals embattled -- Mobilizing for war -- The new Unionism and the New Liberalism -- Planning for full employment -- Epilogue : the reconstruction of New Deal liberalism -- Archival sources -- Notes -- Index. |
Responsibility: | Alan Brinkley. |
Abstract:
When Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Democratic party won a landslide victory in the 1936 elections, the way seemed open for the New Deal to complete the restructuring of American government it had begun in 1933. But, as Alan Brinkley makes clear, no sooner were the votes counted than the New Deal began to encounter a series of crippling political and economic problems that stalled its agenda and forced an agonizing reappraisal of the liberal ideas that had shaped it - a reappraisal still in progress when the United States entered World War II. The wartime experience helped complete the transformation of New Deal liberalism. It muted Washington's hostility to the corporate world and diminished liberal faith in the capacity of government to reform capitalism. But it also helped legitimize Keynesian fiscal policies, reinforce commitments to social welfare, and create broad support for "full employment" as the centerpiece of postwar liberal hopes. By the end of the war, New Deal liberalism had transformed itself and assumed its modern form - a form that is faring much less well today than almost anyone would have imagined a generation ago. The End of Reform is a study of ideas and of the people who shaped them: Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Henry Morgenthau, Jesse Jones, Tommy Corcoran, Leon Henderson, Marriner Eccles, Thurman Arnold, Alvin Hansen. It chronicles a critical moment in the history of modern American politics, and it speculates that the New Deal's retreat from issues of wealth, class, and economic power has contributed to present-day liberalism's travails.
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