Fear itself : the New Deal and the origins of our time / Ira Katznelson.
By: Katznelson, Ira [author.]
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BookPublisher: New York, London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, c2013Description: x, 706 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0871407388; 9780871407382.Subject(s): New Deal, 1933-1939 | World politics -- 1933-1945 | Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945DDC classification: 973.917 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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BardBerlinLibrary 2nd floor | 973.917 Kat 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Originally published: 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fight against fear -- A journey without maps -- Pilot, judge, senator -- "Strong medicine" -- Southern cage -- American with a difference -- Jim Crow Congress -- Ballots for soldiers -- Emergency -- Radical moment -- The first crusade -- Unrestricted war -- Democracy's price -- Public procedures, private interests -- "Wildest hopes" -- Armed and loyal.
"Departing from the traditional historical consensus, Ira Katznelson examines the New Deal through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling American democracy with the rise of competing dictatorships. In an age defined by a pervasive, almost existential fear, Katznelson argues that American democracy was both saved and distorted by a Faustian collaboration that safeguarded racial segregation as it built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power."--P. 4 of cover.
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