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The Great Depression and New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
Eric Rauchway
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Description for The Great Depression and New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
Paperback. In the middle of the great, global twentieth-century crisis, the Great Depression forced the United States to adopt policies at odds with its political traditions. This very short introduction to that crisis and those policies provides readers with a summary of the global impact and effect of the economic contraction and the American reaction. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10 maps & halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 179 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124.
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 economic upheaval, and the ineffectiveness of ... Read more
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 economic upheaval, and the ineffectiveness of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Weight
140g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195326345
SKU
V9780195326345
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About Eric Rauchway
Eric Rauchway is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author most recently of Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America and Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America. He has written for The American Prospect, The Financial Times (a regular columnist while teaching at Oxford), The New Republic Online, and MSNBC's "Altercation." ... Read more
Reviews for The Great Depression and New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
"Rauchway boils it down to 150 pages. He calls it: The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. I call it required reading."
Laura Conaway, NPR's Planet Money "Everybody's talking new New Deal these days... Eric Rauchway is all over this."-Paul Krugman, The New York Times "This well written, informative and illustrated book sets the scene, introduces the ... Read more
Laura Conaway, NPR's Planet Money "Everybody's talking new New Deal these days... Eric Rauchway is all over this."-Paul Krugman, The New York Times "This well written, informative and illustrated book sets the scene, introduces the ... Read more