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The Great Exception : The New Deal and 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cowie, Jefferson (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rethinking the New Deal in American history
  • The question of democracy in the age of incorporation
  • Kaleidoscope of reform
  • Working-class interregnum
  • Constraints and fractures in the new liberalism
  • The great exception in action
  • Toward a new gilded age
  • The era of big government is not over (but the New Deal probably is).