The New Deal A Modern History Michael Hiltzik by Michael Hiltzik 9781439158951, 9781439154496, 9781439154489, 143915449X, 1439154481, 1439158959 instant download after payment.

Franklin Roosevelts New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal governments role in Americans lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to define America to this day. With The New Deal: A Modern History, Pulitzer Prizewinning writer Michael Hiltzik offers fresh insights into this inflection point in the American experience. Here is an intimate look at the alchemy that allowed FDR to mold his multifaceted and contentious inner circle into a formidable political team. The New Deal: A Modern History shows how Roosevelt, through the force of his personality, commanded the loyalty of the rock-ribbed fiscal conservative Lewis Douglas and the radical agrarian Rexford Tugwell alike; of Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins, one a curmudgeonly miser, the other a spendthrift idealist; of Henry Morgenthau, gentleman farmer of...