Building New Deal liberalism
Subtitle: the political economy of public works, 1933-1956
By: Jason Scott Smith.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: New Deal, 1933-1939.; Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945.; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Reevaluating the New Deal state and the public works revolution; value: Economic development and unemployment in the early New Deal; value: Making a New Deal state: patronage and the public works administration; value: The dilemma of New Deal public works: people or projects?; value: "Boondoggling" and the welfare state; value: Party building and "pernicious political activities": the road to the Hatch Act; value: Public works and New Deal liberalism in reorganization and war; value: Public works and the postwar world; value: Epilogue: public works and the building of New Deal liberalism.