For students with no prior knowledge of the New Deal era, Ronald Edsforth presents a wide-ranging introduction to the sweeping political and economic changes that occurred in the first half of the 20th Century. Devoting a good portion of the book to the events that led to the New Deal, he presents the Great Depression as a prolonged economic crises that generated widespread human suffering but led to enormous creativity in the political culture and restored faith in the government.
For students with no prior knowledge of the New Deal era, Ronald Edsforth presents a wide-ranging introduction to the sweeping political and economic ...
