Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932-1940

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The New American Nation Series
Edited by HENRY STEELE COMMAGER and RICHARD fi. MORRIS
Harper Row lias launched this new comprehensive survey of the history of the United States from the days of discovery to the mid-twentieth century to take the place of the famous but now outdated American Nation series. As the scope of history broadened to embrace science, technology, religion, popular culture, public administration and similar subjects, and as new evidence about the past accumulated, it became clear that it was time for a fresh and judicious appraisal of the whole of the American past. To this end The New American Nation Series is dedicated.
Each volume is part of a carefully planned whole, and co-ordinated with the other volumes in the series; at the same time each volume is complete in itself. While for the most part the series follows a chronological pattern, some volumes are devoted to cultural history, constitutional history and foreign affairs.
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Fülszöveg

The New American Nation Series
Edited by HENRY STEELE COMMAGER and RICHARD fi. MORRIS
Harper Row lias launched this new comprehensive survey of the history of the United States from the days of discovery to the mid-twentieth century to take the place of the famous but now outdated American Nation series. As the scope of history broadened to embrace science, technology, religion, popular culture, public administration and similar subjects, and as new evidence about the past accumulated, it became clear that it was time for a fresh and judicious appraisal of the whole of the American past. To this end The New American Nation Series is dedicated.
Each volume is part of a carefully planned whole, and co-ordinated with the other volumes in the series; at the same time each volume is complete in itself. While for the most part the series follows a chronological pattern, some volumes are devoted to cultural history, constitutional history and foreign affairs.
Designed for the general reader as well as the scholar, the forty-odd volumes of the series are wiutten by leading historians of this generation who have here combined to make a new and, it is hoped, significant contribution to the understanding of American history. Now available:
THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES,
1607-1763 by Louis B. Wright THE ENGLISH PEOPLE ON THE EVE OF COLONIZATION,
1603-1630 by Wallace Notestein THE COMING OF THE REVOLUTION, 1763-1775
by Laiurence Henry Gipson THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775-1783
by John Richard Alden THE FEDERALIST ERA, 1789-1801 by John C. Miller THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE NEW NATION, 1776-1830
by Kussel B. Nye THE GROAVTH OF SOUTHERN CIVILIZ.\TiON, 1790-1860
by Clement Eaton THE JACKSONIAN ERA, 1828-1848 by Glyndon G. Van Deusen THE FAR WESTERN FRONTIER, 1830-18(K) by Ray A. BiUington THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY, 1830-1860 by Louis Filler POLITICS, REFORM AND EXPANSION, 1890-1900
by Harold U. Faulkner AMERICA'S RISE TO WORLD POWER, 1898-1954
by Foster Rhea Dulles THE ERA OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1900-1912
by Geonre E. Moxury WOODRO\V WILSON AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA,
1910-1917 by Arthur S. Link REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY, 1921-1933 by John D. Hicks FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL, 1932-1940
by William F. Leuchtenburg THE UNITED STATES AND'WORLD WAR II, 2 vols. by A. Russell Buchanan

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940
WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG
This study oL what happened to American society during the Great Depression begins with the political battles oi Hoover's last year in office and ends in 1940 with the determination of F.D.R.— just elected for an unprecedented third term—to make the United States an arsenal of democracy.
Although the emphasis is on the economic crisis and the New Deal reforms— the TVA, the NRA, the AAA—Professor Leuchtenburg shows the social forces which influenced the government—the San Francisco strike in 1934, the careers of Huey Long and Father Coughlin, the revolt of the sharecroppers—and the effect on the American people of hard times, unemployment antl the dole. The author also covers foreign affairs in the 1930's: our commitment to isolation, and the erosion of that commitment.
Based on extensive research in published sources and on more than two hundred manuscript collections, this book gives a penetrating picture of the depression and the immense changes of the thirties: the growth of big government and of labor and farm group empires, a new concern for social welfare, the increased political and social im]3ortance of ethnic groups, and the changing cjuality of American culture.
yV/z's book, complete in itself, is one of a mmiber to appear under the general title The New American Nation Series. For a description of the project, and for comments on the series, see the back of the jacket.
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