The great exception : the New Deal & the limits of American politics /
"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 a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "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 had not before and has not since. If there is to be a comparable battle for collective economic rights today, Cowie argues, it needs to build on an understanding of the unique political foundation for the New Deal. Anyone who wants to come to terms with the politics of inequality in the United States will need to read The Great Exception."--Provided by publisher |
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Notas: | "Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions." |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781400874415 1400874416 |