A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE NEW DEAL

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 Ne w Dealers were not anticapitalist in the ways in which they approached the problems confronting society. Rather, they were reforme rs who were deeply interested in fixing the problems of capitalism, if at times unsure of the best tools to use for the job. In unde rtaking th...[Read more]