The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679747819)

This bold new analysis of the New Deal dramatically revises our vision of the Roosevelt legacy -- and of the new relation between government and business it made a central fact of American life. With impressive scholarship and narrative brio, Jordan A. Schwarz persuasively demonstrates that the New Deal's architects sought not merely to save an endangered American capitalism but to integrate economically underdeveloped regions of the nation within the scope of a dynamic state capitalism capable, after World War II, of dominating the global marketplace.

As he assesses the contributions of such figures as Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the legal and political "fixer" Thomas G. Corcoran, Texas legislators, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, and the quintessential New Deal industrialist Henry Kaiser, Schwarz produces a volume that should be required reading for anyone concerned with current American industrial policy. And he does so with a liveliness and depth of insight that make The New Dealers comparable to the best work of Arthur Schlesinger or Robert Caro.

Author: Jordan A. Schwarz
ISBN-10: 0679747818
ISBN-13: 9780679747819
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/26/1994
Pages: 434
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.97d