The New Deal
Subtitle: the historical debate
By: edited by Richard S. Kirkendall.
Series: Problems in American history
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780471488774
Subjects: New Deal, 1933-1939.; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.; United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945.; United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
Description: How did the New Deal change American life? This book of readings examines different historians' interpretations of and insights into the answer and the question. This historical debate offers different estimates and explanations of how the New Deal changed America in the 1930s, how it affects America today, and what might be done to bring about new change. - Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Schlesinger, A. M. Significant but not revolutionary change.; title: Hacker, L. M. The establishment of state capitalism.; title: Commager, H. S. The application of accepted and long-familiar principles.; title: Mitchell, B. Intellectual confusion and economic failure.; title: Hacker, L. M. The third American revolution.; title: Degler, C. N. The establishment of the guarantor state.; title: Schlesinger, Jr., A. M. A successful middle way.; title: Bernstein, I. The establishment of big labor.; title: Chambers, C. A. The implementation of postwar progressivism.; title: Hawley, E. W. The survival of big business.; title: Patterson, J. T. Limited by effective resistance.; title: Bernstein, B. J. The continuation of corporate capitalism.; title: Auerbach, J. S. Radical change far short of revolution.; title: Bibliography (p. 151-160)