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Pride, Prejudice, and Politics
Roosevelt Versus Recovery, 1933-1938
Av Gary D. Best
Inbunden, 1990
1098 kr
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The first sustained scholarly critique of the New Deal from the conservative perspective, this study argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was, himself, the primary obstacle to American recovery from the Great Depression of 1933-38. In developing his arguments, author Gary Dean Best focuses on the …
FDR and the Bonus Marchers, 1933-1935
Av Gary D. Best
Inbunden, 1992
880 kr
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The Bonus Marcher incident of the summer of 1932 during the Hoover administration is one of the best known events of the 1930s. Historians and Roosevelt biographers have ever since contrasted the humane treatment of the Bonus Marchers under FDR with the apparent callousness of Hoover. Yet FDR …
Critical Press and the New Deal
The Press versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938
Av Gary D. Best
Inbunden, 1993
1098 kr
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This book challenges generally accepted views by concluding that the critical press, so often characterized by pro-New Deal historians as conservative or reactionary, was in fact a good deal more liberal than Roosevelt and his advisors. Without its opposition to Roosevelt's policies during the …
Nickel and Dime Decade
American Popular Culture During the 1930s
Av Gary D. Best
Inbunden, 1993
854 kr
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This study shows that, despite numerous surface similarities, the popular culture of the 1930s was different from that of the 1920s in a variety of ways, and not only because of the Great Depression. It was a period of quiet desperation and shifting values, one in which nickels and dimes replaced …
Retreat from Liberalism
Collectivists versus Progressives in the New Deal Years
Av Gary D. Best
Inbunden, 2002
880 kr
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During the 1930s, a battle was waged over both philosophy and policy between those who described themselves as liberals, both inside and outside the Roosevelt administration. On one side were those who viewed themselves as modern liberals, who saw capitalism as a failure and sought to replace it …
Witch Hunt in Wise County
The Persecution of Edith Maxwell
Av Gary D. Best
Inbunden, 1994
854 kr
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The southwest Virginia murder trials of a young schoolteacher named Edith Maxwell made her a cause celebre of the 1930s. No newspaper reader or radio listener could avoid hearing of her case in 1935 or 1936, and few magazines neglected to run at least one story on the case. In the media attention …
Dollar Decade
Mammon and the Machine in 1920s America
Av Gary D. Best
Inbunden, 2003
880 kr
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This book examines the underlying causes of the tumult of the 1920s in America that has since captivated writers, readers, moviegoers, and television viewers. During the 1920s, Americans were aware of the momentous changes taking place in their lives. It was an introspective decade. Magazines and …
Dollar Decade
Mammon and the Machine in 1920s America
Av Gary D. Best
E-bok, 2003
942 kr
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This book examines the underlying causes of the tumult of the 1920s in America that has since captivated writers, readers, moviegoers, and television viewers. During the 1920s, Americans were aware of the momentous changes taking place in their lives. It was an introspective decade. Magazines and …
To Free a People
American Jewish Leaders and The Jewish Problem in Eastern Europe, 1890-1914
Av Gary D. Best
Inbunden, 1982
713 kr
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To Free A People describes the earliest beginnings of the influential Jewish lobby: the efforts of Jewish leaders to generate an American response to the oppression of Jews in Eastern Europe around the turn of the century. Proposals to relocate Russian Jews in America, and the efforts of the Jewish …
Politics of American Individualism
Herbert Hoover in Transition, 1918-1921
Av Gary D. Best
Inbunden, 1975
713 kr
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