ISBN10: 0275935248, ISBN13: 9780275935245, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. The first sustained scholarly critique of the New Deal from the conservative perspective, this study argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was, himself, the primary obstacle to American recovery from the Great Depression of 1933-38. In developing his arguments, author Gary Dean Best focuses on the fact that the depression continued through eight years of the Roosevelt administration, despite unprecedented intervention by the federal government in the nation's economic life. Challenging conventional explanations that fault Roosevelt for not embracing Keynesian spending on a scale sufficient to produce recovery, Best finds the roots of America's slow return to economic health in Roosevelt's hostility to the very groups he should have been encouraging: the American business and financial communities.Best provides one of the most careful and objective studies published to date on the actual effects of Roosevelt's policies and programs on American business operations and psychology. He reexamines the issue of why businessmen and bankers were so critical of the New Deal--criticisms that have been, until now, largely dismissed as motivated by greed and selfishness. He also asks how Roosevelt and his advisors could have hoped to produce an economic recovery when a state of near war existed between the administration and the employers and ...

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ISBN10: 0275935248, ISBN13: 9780275935245, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1990]
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ISBN10: 0275935248, ISBN13: 9780275935245, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover 0275935248
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ISBN10: 0275935248, ISBN13: 9780275935245, [publisher: Bloomsbury Academic] Hardcover
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1990]

ISBN10: 0275935248, ISBN13: 9780275935245, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.05
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1990]

Westport, CT Praeger 1990 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. Periodicals and Newspapers.

Praeger, Date: 1990-11-19. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1990. Praeger ISBN 0275935248 9780275935245 [US]