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The great exception : the New Deal & the limits of American politics
Author
Title
The great exception : the New Deal & the limits of American politics / Jefferson Cowie.
ISBN
069117573X
9780691175737
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Notes
Second printing, and first paperback printing, 2017.
Summary
Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the United States government achieved a unique level of equality, using its considerable resources on behalf of working Americans in ways that it had not before and has not since. If there is to be a comparable battle for collective economic rights today, Cowie argues, it needs to build on an understanding of the unique political foundation for the New Deal. Anyone who wants to come to terms with the politics of inequality in the United States will need to read The Great Exception.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2024
Series
Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: rethinking the New Deal in American history
The question of democracy in the age of incorporation
Kaleidoscope of reform
Working-class interregnum
Constraints and fractures in the new liberalism
The great exception in action
Toward a new gilded age
The era of big government is not over (but the New Deal probably is).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Nonfiction.
History.
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