Great Depression and the New Deal: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Great Depression and the New Deal: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780195326345

ISBN-10: 0195326342

ISBN-13: 9780195326345

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eric Rauchway

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The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies--described as "laissez-faire with a vengeance"--which in effect isolated our nation from the world economy just when the world needed the United States most. He shows how the magnitude of the resulting economic upheaval, and the ineffectiveness of the old ways of dealing with financial hardships, set the stage…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 4.40" wide x 6.80" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Eric Rauchway is University Lecturer in American History at the University of Oxford.




Introduction



The World Crisis



Before the New Deal



How did we get caught?"



The New Deal vs. the Constitution



FDR, His Friends, and His Enemies



The New Deal that Lasted



Working for the United States of America



The New Deal in War and Peace



The New Deal Legacy