Congressional conservatism and the New Deal : the growth of the conservative coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 /

History faced by the disaster of depression, Congress in the early 1930s proved amenable to the far-reaching demands and programs presented to it by the newly elected President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, but by 1937 it showed increasing resistance, even outright opposition, to many New Deal measures. I...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Patterson, James T.
Corporate Author: Organization of American Historians
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Lexington] : University of Kentucky Press, ©1967.
Series:Kentucky paperbacks.
Subjects:
1933-1945
Conservatism > United States.
Conservatisme > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Conservatism & Liberalism.
Conservatism
Politics and government
Social policy
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
United States > Social policy.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1933-1945.
États-Unis > Politique sociale.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A tractable Congress
  • A long hot summer
  • Senate realignments: the court controversy
  • The Senate: sectional and economic divisions
  • Politics of independence: the House
  • Groping and coalition
  • Recession politics, 1938
  • Coalitions and elections: the purge
  • Zenith of coalition, 1939
  • Coalition in retrospect. rc.

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