The great exception : the New Deal and the limits of American politics / Jefferson Cowie.
2016
E806 .C68 2016eb
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Title
The great exception : the New Deal and the limits of American politics / Jefferson Cowie.
Author
Cowie, Jefferson, author.
ISBN
9781400874415 (electronic bk.)
1400874416 (electronic bk.)
9780691143804
0691143803
1400874416 (electronic bk.)
9780691143804
0691143803
Published
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations.
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E806 .C68 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.917
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index.
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Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: rethinking the New Deal in American history
The question of democracy in the age of incorporation
Kaleidoscope of reform
Working-class interregnum
Constraints and fractures in the new liberalism
The great exception in action
Toward a new gilded age
The era of big government is not over (but the New Deal probably is).
The question of democracy in the age of incorporation
Kaleidoscope of reform
Working-class interregnum
Constraints and fractures in the new liberalism
The great exception in action
Toward a new gilded age
The era of big government is not over (but the New Deal probably is).