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Building New Deal liberalism : the political economy of public works, 1933-1956 / Jason Scott Smith.
Lippincott Library HC106.3 .S537 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Jason Scott, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
- United States.
- Economic policy.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Politics and government.
- Liberalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Liberalism.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- The first historical study of New Deal public works programs.
- Contents:
- Reevaluating the New Deal state and the public works revolution
- Economic development and unemployment in the early New Deal
- Making a New Deal state: patronage and the public works administration
- The dilemma of New Deal public works: people or projects?
- "Boondoggling" and the welfare state
- Party building and "pernicious political activities": the road to the Hatch Act
- Public works and New Deal liberalism in reorganization and war
- Public works and the postwar world
- Epilogue: public works and the building of New Deal liberalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521828058
- OCLC:
- 58456509
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