Fear Itself The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

Name: Fear Itself The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
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ISBN: 9780871404503

ISBN-10: 0871404508

ISBN-13: 9780871404503

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ira Katznelson

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Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, a towering figure in the study of American and European history (Cornel West), boldly asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. This original study brings to vivid life the politicians and pundits of the time, including Walter Lippmann,…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 720
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.95" long x 0.17" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Marxism and the Cityand the award-winning Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik.He has served as president of the Social Science History Association and of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association.



Introduction: Triumph and Sorrow



Fight Against Fear



A Journey without Maps



Pilot, Judge, Senator



"Strong Medicine"



Southern Cage



American with a Difference



Jim Crow Congress



Ballots for Soldiers



Emergency



Radical Moment



The First Crusade



Unrestricted War



Democracy's Price



Public Procedures, Private Interests



"Wildest Hopes"



Armed and Loyal


Epilogue: January 1953


Notes


Acknowledgments


Photograph Credits


Index