The New Deal lawyers
By: by Peter H. Irons
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780691046884
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: United States. National Recovery Administration.; United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.; United States. National Labor Relations Board.; Government attorneys -- United States.; New Deal, 1933-1939.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 333-340.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Boys with their hair ablaze; title: Section one : The legal politicians of the National Recovery Administration.; title: Corporatism and cartels : the National Industrial Recovery Act; title: The Blue Eagle in court; title: "Hot oil" and hot tempers : the NIRA reaches the Supreme Court; title: The felling of Belcher and the search for a successor; title: The Schechter case and the "horse-and-buggy" court; title: Section two : The legal reformers of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.; title: The search for parity : the Agricultural Adjustment Act; title: The Triple A in court; title: King Cotton and the Triple-A purge; title: Hamilton's ghost in the Supreme Court; title: Section three : The legal craftsmen of the National Labor Relations Board.; title: Labor under the Blue Eagle; title: Legal craftsmen and the Wagner Act; title: The NLRB implements its master plan; title: The Supreme Court opens its eyes; title: Conclusion : The limits of legal liberalism