The Origins of the National Recovery Administration.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Himmelberg, Robert.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Fordham University Press, 1993.

Summary:

This book explores the background of the NRA, the most important economic measure of the first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. It also is the history of the business community's efforts during the 1920s and '30s to emasculate the federal policy of maintaining a competitive enterprise system.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Selected Abbreviations

Introduction to the 1993 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Trade Associations on the Defensive: The First Year of the Harding Administration

2. The Hoover-Daugherty Controversy

3. Exit Daugherty, Hoover Triumphs

4. The Republican Trade Association Policy

5. The Coolidge Era and the Rise of the Revision Movement

6. The Hoover Administration's Antitrust-Enforcement Policy

7. The Emergence of Antitrust Revision as a Major Political Question

8. Hoover, the Revisionists, and Congress

9. The Paradox of Hoover's Last Recovery Effort

10. The Triumph of the Revisionists

11. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8232-9653-9

OCLC:

1309035180