The Great Exception : : The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics / / Jefferson Cowie.

• VerfasserIn: Cowie, Jefferson,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Society in Modern America ; 120
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 10 halftones. 3 line illus.

Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the United States government achieved a unique level of equality, using its considerable resources on behalf of working Americans in ways that it had not before and has not since. If there is to be a comparable battle for collective economic rights today, Cowie argues, it needs to build on an understanding of the unique political foundation for the New Deal. Anyone who wants to come to terms with the politics of inequality in the United States will need to read The Great Exception.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE: PHILADELPHIA, 1936 -- INTRODUCTION: RETHINKING THE NEW DEAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY -- CHAPTER ONE: THE QUESTION OF DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF INCORPORATION -- CHAPTER TWO: KALEIDOSCOPE OF REFORM -- CHAPTER THREE: WORKING- CLASS INTERREGNUM -- CHAPTER FOUR: CONSTRAINTS AND FRACTURES IN THE NEW LIBERALISM -- CHAPTER FIVE: THE GREAT EXCEPTION IN ACTION -- CHAPTER SIX: TOWARD A NEW GILDED AGE -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE ERA OF BIG GOVERNMENT IS NOT OVER (BUT THE NEW DEAL PROBABLY IS) -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX