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New Deal Fat Cats : Campaign Finances and the Democratic Part in 1936 / Michael Webber.

Webber, Michael, author.
2021
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Title
New Deal Fat Cats : Campaign Finances and the Democratic Part in 1936 / Michael Webber.
Author
Webber, Michael, author.
ISBN
9780823296286
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296286
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (180 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823296286 doi
Summary
In New Deal Fat Cats, Michael Webber offers a fresh perspective on the New Deal. The author analyzes the role of various segments of society in party politics during the political change brought on by the Great Depression. Webber uses analysis of campaign contribution as a major method of evaluating the 1936 presidential election. Today's readers may be surprised at the statistical breakdown of the group that reelected FDR. These groups ranged from southern Democrats and organized labor, to Catholics, Jews, and small businesses. A considerable portion of the author's analysis rests on interpretive literature about the politics of the New Deal and specifically about the role of business in the construction of those politics. The emphasis of this work is on the coalition of what seem to be disparate elements in society suggesting that large and monolithic power blocks are not necessarily the road to major political change in U.S. society. The reader will begin to sense the seemingly divisive pressures from different groups that made the New Deal not only a paradox, but an effective social reality.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. The New Deal in Historical and Theoretical IX XV Perspective
2. Deserters and Traitors: Did Business Desert the Democrats between 1932 and 1936?
3. The Mass-Consumption Sector and Democratic Party Finances
4. Industrial Structure and Party Competition during the New Deal: The Investment Theory of Politics Reconsidered
5. Roosevelt's "Soft Money Scandal": The Democratic Convention Book of 1936
6. New York City and the South: The Role of Religion and Region in Financing the 1936 Election
7. Organized Labor's Political Baptism: FDR and the Unions
8. Conclusion
METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX
REFERENCES
INDEX

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