The New Dealers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jordan A. Schwarz
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1892-1992
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: William Gibbs McAdoo, Herbert Hoover, Bernard Baruch, Jesse H. Jones, Hugh Johnson, Louis D. Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, Thomas G. Corcoran, William 0. Douglas, Jerome N. Frank, David E. Lilienthal, Sam Rayburn, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Wright Patman, Henry J. Kaiser, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Politics, Social issues, 1940’s, Depression, economic, 1930’s, Politicians, Presidents, Economic policy, Economic assistance
- Locales: United States
Postwar perceptions of the New Deal, clouded by conservative criticisms of federal interventions in the nation’s economy, are due for a jolt thanks to Jordan A. Schwarz’s superbly crafted and downright exciting The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt
The “New Deal,” a term coined by Franklin Delano Roosevelt for his acceptance speech as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in 1932, was Roosevelt’s encapsulated campaign promise to take bold action to address the United States’ economic woes, a hemorrhaging fiscal nightmare brought on...
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