The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Автор:Alan Brinkley Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0679753141 "Alan Brinkley brings his magnificent skills as a writer, historian, and original thinker to bear on a fascinating story -- the transformation of New Deal liberalism from the late '(3)os to the end of World War II. No one has a finer grasp of the intellectual, social, and political currents of this transforming era than Alan Brinkley. His book is a triumph." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin When Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Democratic party won a landslide victory in the 1936 elections, the way seemed open forthe New Deal to complete the restructuring of American government it had begun in 1933. But, as Alan Brinkley makes clear, no sooner were the votes counted than the New Deal began to encounter a series of crippling political and economic problems that stalled its agenda and forced an agonizing reappraisal of the liberal ideas that had shaped it -- a reappraisal still in progress when the United States entered World War II. The wartime experience helped complete the transformation of...
