Roosevelt's Peacetime Administrations, 1933-41: A Documentary HistoryGeorge Henry Bennett Manchester University Press, 2004 - 264 páginas This book serves as an essential introduction to Roosevelt's domestic policy during his tenure from the struggles of the Depression to the outbreak of the Second World War. Incorporating archival discoveries at the Roosevelt Presidential Library, this documentary collection focuses on the debates and controversies surrounding the implementation and practice of New Deal policies. It highlights the meanings, flaws and outcomes of Roosevelt's attempts to refashion American society. With an extensive introduction, the book reproduces extracts from a variety of sources including Government records, public addresses and speeches and the private papers of Roosevelt and some of his closest associates. |
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Acknowledgements page | 1 |
New Deal domestic policy | 61 |
New Deal people | 119 |
New Deal foreign policy | 157 |
New Deal critics | 205 |
Chronology of events | 249 |
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