TY - BOOK AU - Hiltzik,Michael A. TI - The New Deal: a modern history SN - 9781439154489 (hbk.) AV - 002 E 806 H656n 2011 U1 - 973.917 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Free Press KW - New Deal, 1933-1939 KW - Depressions KW - 1929 KW - United States KW - Crisis financiera KW - Estados Unidos KW - 1929-1932 KW - Politics and government KW - 1933-1945 KW - Política y gobierno KW - Economic conditions KW - 1918-1945 KW - Condiciones económicas N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-471) and index; The long winter The hundred days. "Action now" ; A good crisis ; A river out of Eden ; Wall Street in the dock ; Agony on the land The New Deal rising. The general ; The gold standard on the booze ; Harry and Harold ; So many sinners ; The little red house ; Pied pipers ; The cornerstone ; Black Monday ; Federal one ; The most forgotten man Return to Earth. Backlash ; Nine old men ; Roosevelt's recession ; Purgatory Epilogue. Defining the New Deal N2 - Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government's 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 this book, writer Michael Hiltzik offers fresh insights into this inflection point in the American experience. He shows how Roosevelt, through force of personality, commanded the loyalty of the fiscal conservatives and radical agrarians alike--yet the same character traits that made him a great leader would sow the seeds of the New Deal's end. Understanding the New Deal may be more important today than at any time in the last eight decades. Conceived in response to a devastating financial crisis very similar to America's most recent downturn--the New Deal remade the country's economic and political environment in six years of intensive experimentation, and provided a model for subsequent presidents who faced challenging economic conditions, right up to the present.--From publisher description UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2011011367-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2011011367-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1215/2011011367-s.html ER -