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New Deal Thought

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title New Deal Thought
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Howard Zinn
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:472
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780872206854
ClassificationsDewey:973.917
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Publication Date 1 September 2003
Publication Country United States

Description

A reprint of the 1966 Bobbs-Merrill edition. In this anthology, edited by the author of "A People's History of the United States", prominent New Dealers and their contemporaries on both the left and the right debate the proper role of government in treating such American economic and social ills as poverty, sickness, ignorance, racial inequality, and the giant gap between haves and have-nots in what was, even in the thirties, the world's richest nation. A lively Introduction by the editor examines the achievements and failures of FDR's bold domestic experiment and its legacy in an America still plagued by many of the problems at which the New Deal took aim.

Author Biography

Howard Zinn is Professor Emeritus of History, Boston University.

Reviews

The volume is primarily a collection of documents and . . . remains a vaulable resource. Containing 420 pages of documentation, it is divided into eleven sections . . . national economic planning, monopoly power and public enterprise, social welfare, and the interest groups which the New Deal failed to mobilize.--Stuart Kidd, Journal of American Studies