From Obstruction to Moderation
Subtitle: The Transformation of Senate Conservatism, 1938-1952
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781575910260
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; 20th century; Politics - Current Events; Conservatism; U.S. Senate; Voting; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Politics and government; Government - Legislative Branch; Congress.; United States.; 1933-1953; Congress; Senate; United States
Description: "This work examines the classic conservative coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats in the United States Senate from 1938, when the social reforms of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal had largely been completed, to 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first Republic president in two decades. Both contemporary accounts and most scholarly analysis usually portrays this fourteen-year era as one of resurgent conservatism which posed a threat to the survival of FDR's New Deal."--BOOK JACKET.