The New Deal and the Emergence of the Old Right
During the 1920s, the emerging individualists and libertarians - the Menckens, the Nocks, the Villards, and their followers - were generally considered Men of the Left; like the Left generally, they bitterly opposed the emergence of Big ... [... more]
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Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of ...
 The how and why of massive dams during New Deal era: This book has just recently been published, and given the renewed controversy over whether or not to dismantle some dams in the U.S., it is a must read for those interested in how and why massive dams [... more]
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The New Deal in One Lesson
I was asking Jackson, a man whom I know primarily from our conversations each Sunday after Mass, outside of the rural parish in Piedmont. I don't know his last name (or maybe that He was right-sort of. Back in the Dixie of the 1930s, when a few ... [... more]
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The End of Ford: It Began in the New Deal
The Great Depression had revolutionary political and social consequences, some of them irreversible, some of them still acting with unspent force. It began in 1930 and continued like a nightmare of Prometheus in chains until the nation's energies ... [... more]
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The Disaster Called the New Deal
By Burton Folsom, Jr. Threshold Editions, 2008. Xvi + 318 pages.] His anti-New Deal verdict is hard to dispute: levels of unemployment at the end of the 1930s remained at depression levels. In May 1939, Treasury Secretary Henry J. Morgenthau Jr., ... [... more]
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How to Use Your New Deal Photocard
New Deal is a U.K. government social assistance program aimed at helping unemployed citizens until they find work. If accepted for the New Deal Scheme, you can apply for a New Deal Photocard. It will qualify you for reduced fare rates on public ... [... more]
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Hazlitt and the Great Depression
Old Right journalist Garet Garrett described the New Deal as a revolution against America's tradition of private property, limited government, and the rule of law. Indeed, it had all the earmarks. President Roosevelt ran against government ... [... more]
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The Conscience of a Liberal - Democratic Party
Paul Krugman's new book The Conscience of a Liberal, reminds us, that we have been here before. The political partisanship and rising economic inequality is at the levels it was in the 1920's, before the New Deal. Political partisanship and ... [... more]
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The Limits of Symbolic Reform: The New Deal and ...
Book Description: In The Limits of Symbolic Reform, Mark Leff examines the gap between politics and economics, between symbol and substance in the New Deal. He shows that Roosevelt's tax reform proposals had little fiscal significance but were [... more]
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The Constitution and the New Deal
Ably done and of high interest: I was not going to review this book, since I doubt my qualifications, but since there is no review posted I will tell you what I thought of the book. The author takes up very interesting topics, such as, e.g., the [... more]
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The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940
Outstanding Book on the Great Depression and the New Deal: Anthony Badger is a most distinguished professor of history at Cambridge in England. Few people better understand the Great Depression in America and the New Deal than Badger. This is a work of [... more]
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The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short ...
The Depression and New Deal Discussed Concisely: The Oxford University Press publishes a series called "Very Short Introductions" written by authorities in their fields. The series helps to introduce busy and curious readers to a wide variety [... more]
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