The Great Depression and New Deal  -  Eric Rauchway

A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

KORTE INHOUD

The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures.

Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies--described as "laissez-faire with a vengeance"--which in effect isolated our nation from the world economy just when the worl...
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2008 Uitgever: Oxford University Press Usa 160 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0195326342 ISBN-13: 9780195326345