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A commonwealth of hope : the New Deal response to crisis / Alan Lawson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawson, R. Alan, 1934-
- Series:
- American moment.
- The American moment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
- United States.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Prelude : the fall of the American system
- The shaping of Franklin Roosevelt
- Landslide
- The struggle for financial stability
- The recovery of industry
- Saving the farms
- Launching the welfare state
- Revival of the spirit
- Renewing the New Deal lease
- The judicial revolution
- A rendezvous with destiny
- The common man at the end of the decade
- The international climax
- Epilogue : another cycle?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8872-7
- OCLC:
- 923192160
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