New Deal or raw deal? how FDR's economic legacy has damaged America
A revisionist perspective on FDR's presidency and the New Deal argues that such government programs as social security, minimum wage, and farm subsidies didn't work in the 1930s and do not work now, in a critical report that traces many modern problems to the FDR administration.
| Main Author: | Folsom, Burton W. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Threshold Editions,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The making of the myth: FDR and the New Deal
- FDR's rise to power: political skill, ambition, and deception
- What caused the Great Depression?
- The NRA: why price-fixing damaged American business
- The AAA: how it hurt farming
- Relief and the WPA: did they really help the unemployed?
- More public programs that fell short: the Air Mail Act, FERA Camps, and TVA
- Financial interference: manipulation of gold and silver markets, tariffs, stocks, and banks
- Safety net or quagmire? minimum wage, social security, and labor relations
- No free ride: the burden of excise, income, and corporate taxes
- The IRS: FDR's personal weapon
- Patronage transformed: the elections of 1934 and 1936
- FDR stumbles: court packing, the purge, and the issue of race
- How FDR's deception tarnished the presidency forever
- What FDR should have done: cut spending, tax rates, and the tariff
- What finally did end the Great Depression ?
- Why historians have missed the mark
- The New Deal and repercussions for today's economy.