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Commonwealth of Hope:

The New Deal Response to Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780801884061
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Alan Lawson
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Local release date: 13/09/2006
Format: Hardback 304 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]

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Did the New Deal represent the true American way or was it an aberration that would last only until the old order could reassert itself? This original and thoughtful study tells the story of the New Deal, explains its origins, and assesses its legacy. Alan Lawson explores how the circumstances of the Great Depression and the distinctive leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt combined to bring about unprecedented economic and policy reform. Challenging conventional wisdom, he argues that the New Deal was not an improvised response to an unexpected crisis, but the realization of a unique opportunity to put into practice Roosevelt's long-developed progressive thought. Lawson focuses on where the impetus and plans for the New Deal originated, how Roosevelt and those closest to him sought to fashion a cooperative commonwealth, and what happened when the impulse for collective unity was thwarted. He describes the impact of the Great Depression on the prevailing system and traces the fortunes of several major social sectors as the drive to create a cohesive plan for reconstruction unfolded. He continues the story of these main sectors through the last half of the 1930s and traces their legacy down to the present as crucial challenges to the New Deal have arisen. Drawing from a wide variety of scholarly texts, records of the Roosevelt administration, Depression-era newspapers and periodicals, and biographies and reflections of the New Dealers, Lawson offers a comprehensive conceptual base for a crucial aspect of American history.

Series Editor's ForewordPrefaceIntroduction1. Prelude: The Fall of the American System2. The Shaping of Franklin Roosevelt3. Landslide4. The Struggle for Financial Stability5. The Recovery of Industry6. Saving the Farms7. Launching the Welfare State8. Revival of the Spirit9. Renewing the New Deal Lease10. The Judicial Revolution11. The Rendezvous with Destiny12. The Common Man at the End of the Decade13. The International ClimaxEpilogue: Another Cycle?Essay on SourcesIndex

""A Commonwealth of Hope provides a highly readable and illuminating synthesis of some of the best scholarship on the New Deal.""

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