Concise History of the New Deal

Name: Concise History of the New Deal
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ISBN: 9780521700788

ISBN-10: 0521700787

ISBN-13: 9780521700788

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jason Scott Smith

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During the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal carried out a program of dramatic reform to counter the unprecedented failures of the market economy exposed by the Great Depression. Contrary to the views of today's conservative critics, this book argues that New Dealers were not "anticapitalist" in the ways in which they approached the problems confronting society. Rather, they were reformers who were deeply interested in fixing the problems of capitalism, if at times unsure of the best tools to use for the job. In undertaking their reforms, the New Dealers profoundly changed the United States in ways that still resonate today. Lively and engaging, this narrative history focuses on the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/29/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Jason Scott Smith is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. He previously held a Mellon Fellowship in American Studies at Cornell University, where he was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History and the Department of Government. In 2001-02 he was the Harvard Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School, where he taught courses on the history of capitalism. His work has appeared in a number of journals, including the Journal of Social History, Pacific Historical Review, Reviews in American History, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.