Plan your lecture accordingly. Determine what you think is most important about the New Deal era and draw up a lecture that will convey your perspective to a class of undergraduates. Badger explains why he does not place F. D. Roosevelt at the center of his account. Paul Conkin, in contrast, devotes a very substantial part of his short book on the New Deal on Roosevelt and his character. To what extent does your lecture stress the interrelationship of the New Deal's campaign for social justice and economic recovery.
Contemporary students have little experience with or interest in labor unions.
If the success of a policy is measured by how long it endures, much of the New Deal's agricultural policy seemingly must be ranked a success. Price supports and production controls adopted during the New Deal defined crucial areas of the agricultural economy for the subsequent half century. The Social Security Act arguably is the most enduring and popular legacy of the New Deal. Badger repeatedly stresses the limits that prevented the New Dealers from doing much more than they did.