Saving Capitalism : : The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933-1940 / / James Stuart Olson.

For two generations historians have debated the significance of the New Deal, arguing about what it tried and tried not to do, whether it was radical or reactionary, and what its origins were. They have emphasized the National Recovery Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Tennesse...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1988
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5037
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations Used in Notes
  • CHAPTER I. The Origins of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
  • CHAPTER II. The Emergency Banking Act of 1933
  • CHAPTER III. Czar: Jesse Jones and His Empire
  • CHAPTER IV. Reconstruction of the Banking System, 1933–1934
  • CHAPTER V. The New Deal Credit Revolution, 1933–1934
  • CHAPTER VI. The Emergence of a Financial Power, 1933–1935
  • CHAPTER VII. The RFC and the National Recovery Administration, 1933–1935
  • CHAPTER VIII. Decline
  • CHAPTER IX. Revival
  • CHAPTER X. War and Transformation
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index