Week of January 12, 2009
News Item: President-elect Barack Obama has presented his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan which, he has said, would resuscitate the economy. This stimulus package could cost around $775 billion and would be used, in part, for tax cuts and to create 3.5 million new jobs. Could this be the makings of a modern-day New Deal? Listed here are some titles that provide some background information on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program of the 1930s.
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American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era, 1932-1945
Edited by Thomas W. Benson. Michigan State UP, 2006
Call Number: E806 .A638 2006
Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal
By Robert Shogan. Ivan R. Dee, 2006
Call Number: E806 .S54 2006
A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis
By Alan Lawson. Johns Hopkins UP, 2006
Call Number: E806 .L365 2006
The Economic Thought of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Origins of the New Deal
By Daniel Roland Fusfeld. Columbia UP, 1956
Call Number: E807 .F8 1956
FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
By Jim Powell. Crown Forum, 2003
Call Number: E806 .P68 2003 (At Jupiter Campus- May be borrowed through ILL services)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress: The New Deal and Its Aftermath
Edited by Thomas Phillip Wolf et al. M.E. Sharpe, 2000
Call Number: E806 .F6915 2001 (At Jupiter Campus- May be borrowed through ILL services)
The Great Depression & the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
By Eric Rauchway. Oxford UP, 2008
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
By Sean McCann. Duke UP, 2000
Call Number: PS374 .D4 M38 2000
Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal
By Robert D. Leighninger, Jr. U of South Carolina Press, 2007
Call Number: HD3885 .L45 2007
Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal
By Gabrielle M. Esperdy. U of Chicago Press, 2008
Call Number: NA6225 .E87 2008
New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State
By Michael Szalay. Duke UP, 2000
Call Number: PS228 .M63 S93 2000
On Our Way
By Franklin D. Roosevelt. J. Day, 1934
Call Number: E806 .R745
The Politics of Recovery: Roosevelt’s New Deal
By Albert U. Romasco. Oxford UP, 1983
Call Number: HC106.3 .R578
Roosevelt’s Peacetime Administrations, 1933-41: A Documentary History of the New Deal Years
Edited by G. H. Bennett. Manchester UP, 2004
Call Number: E806 .R797 2004