Eric (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of California, Davis) Rauchway
The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the -American Way- itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies--described as -laissez-faire with a vengeance---which in effect isolated our nation from the world economy just when the world needed the United States most. He shows how the magnitude of the resulting...
The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the -American Way- itself. Now, in this superb compact hi...
