The Great Exception : : The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics / / Jefferson Cowie.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 10 halftones. 3 line illus. |
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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