Eric Rauchway
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, they represented not only different political parties but vastly different approaches to the question of the day: How could the nation recover from the Great Depression? As historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War, FDR laid out coherent, far-ranging plans for the New Deal in the months prior to his inauguration. Meanwhile, still-President Hoover, worried about FDR's abilities...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 166
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
150 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
