(Library ebook) The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Modern America)
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| #680106 in Books | Cowie Jefferson | 2016-01-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.60 x1.00 x5.50l,.0 | File Name: 0691143803 | 288 pages | The Great Exception The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Good history, but controversial thesis...|By Customer|I think Cowie is a gifted historian and I've liked his previous works, but this one is a bit pessimistic. If not for his established credentials as a lucid and forward-thinking chronicler of working class plight, I would probably mistake this book for conservative or centrist liberal reaction to leftist agitation. I think||"Cowie--like the best work of the mid-century historian Richard Hofstadter, whom he frequently cites--has written not so much a work of American history as a brilliant meditation about a central dilemma of American history."--In These Times
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...
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