num_pages: 300
description: Reconstructing the story of how reformers used public authority to reshape the nation, Jason Scott Smith argues that the New Deal produced a revolution in state-sponsored economic development. The scale and scope of this dramatic federal investment in infrastructure laid crucial foundations--sometimes literally--for postwar growth, prestaging the national highways and the military-industrial complex. This impressive and exhaustively researched analysis underscores the importance of the New Deal in comprehending political and economic change in modern America.
language: English
title: Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956
titlecomplete: Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956
genres: History
ratings_count: 22
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Abel Wolman Award
publisher: Cambridge University Press