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New Deal or Raw Deal? by Burton Folsom
ISBN: 9781416592372
Publication Date: 2009-11-17
In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton W. Folsom exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a vendetta against the business elite, Roosevelt created New Deal programs marked by inconsistent planning, wasteful spending, and opportunity for political gain -- ultimately elevating public opinion of his administration but falling flat in achieving the economic revitalization that America so desperately needed from the Great Depression. Folsom takes a critical, revisionist look at Roosevelt's presidency, his economic policies, and his personal life.
Great Depression and New Deal by Gale Research Staff
ISBN: 9780787665357
Publication Date: 2002-11-15
FDR and the American Crisis
ISBN: 9781518122422
Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954
Fear Itself: The New Deal and Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson
ISBN: 9780871407382
Publication Date: 2014-03-17
A work that “deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions” (David Kennedy), Fear Itself changes the ground rules for our understanding of this pivotal era in American history. Ira Katznelson examines the New Deal through the lens of a pervasive, almost existential fear that gripped a world defined by the collapse of capitalism and the rise of competing dictatorships, as well as a fear created by the ruinous racial divisions in American society. Katznelson argues that American democracy was both saved and distorted by a Faustian collaboration that guarded racial segregation as it built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. Fear Itself charts the creation of the modern American state and “how a belief in the common good gave way to a central government dominated by interest-group politics and obsessed with national security”
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell
ISBN: 9781400054770
Publication Date: 2004-09-28
“Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring the American economy after the disastrous contraction of 1929—33. Truth to tell–as Powell demonstrates without a shadow of a doubt–the New Deal hampered recovery from the contraction, prolonged and added to unemployment, and set the stage for ever more intrusive and costly government. Powell’s analysis is thoroughly documented, relying on an impressive variety of popular and academic literature both contemporary and historical.”
–Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate, Hoover Institution
New Deal Ruins by Edward G. Goetz
ISBN: 9780801478284
Publication Date: 2013-03-26
Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990s has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing subsidies. While these policies, articulated in the HOPE VI program begun in 1992, aimed to improve the social and economic conditions of urban residents, the results have been quite different.
New Deal liberalism in Recession and War: The End of Reform by Alan Brinkley
ISBN: 9780679753148
Publication Date: 1996-01-30
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was a turning point in the role of the federal government and in the expectations of American citizens. Now, Alan Brinkley, whose Voices of Protest won the American Book Award for History, shows how New Deal liberalism was transformed into a new beast during and after World War II--and why it is faring so poorly in the 1990s.
Three New Deals by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
ISBN: 9780312427436
Publication Date: 2007-11-27
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal is regarded today as the democratic ideal, a triumphant American response to a crisis that forced Germany and Italy toward National Socialism and Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, before World War II, the regimes of Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler bore fundamental similarities. In this groundbreaking work, Wolfgang Schivelbusch investigates the shared elements of these three "new deals"--focusing on their architecture and public works projects--to offer a new explanation for the popularity of Europe's totalitarian systems. Writing with flair and concision, Schivelbusch casts a different light on the New Deal and puts forth a provocative explanation for the still-mysterious popularity of Europe's most tyrannical regimes.
The New Deal: Conflicting Interpretations and Shifting Perspectives by Melvyn Dubofsky (Editor)
ISBN: 0815307659
Publication Date: 1992-02-01
Not only is the New Deal now truly a part of the past rather than the present, but it is also the subject of an ever-growing corpus of historical literature. Since the late 1960s and early1970s, scholarship about the Great Depression and the New Deal has grown more subtle, sophisticated and international in scope. While sociologists and political scientists have done a great deal to clarify aspects of the New Deal experience, much of the more recent historical scholarship on the subject has exposed the contradictions and contingencies that hampered the efforts of reformers to combat economic catastrophe.

Racism in the New Deal Internet Sources

African Americans and the New Deal
Why Did New Deal Harm Blacks
This is from the Cato Institute which is right wing.
Primary Sources for New Deal

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Selected Database Articles

The Racial Basis of Capitalism and the State, and the Impact of the New Deal on African
This paper describes the ways in which African Americans were written out of or subordinated within the
social policies of the New Deal period. To explain this feature of the New Deal, I argue that the existing social
science perspectives on social policy need to be built on a greater appreciation of the role of racial subjugation in
the construction of class interests, party processes, and the state. The recovery ofthis racial basis helps us
understand why our liberal welfare state resists efforts to move in a more social democratic direction
Forrester Blanchard Washington.pdf ×
Forrester Blanchard Washington (1887-1963) was an African American social work pioneer recruited to the first New Deal administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as director of Negro Work in the Federal Emergency Rehef Administration. This role gave Washington a platform from which to object strenuously to the development of social policies that were predisposing African Americans to chronic dependence on welfare programs instead of creating
equal opportunities for employment. Washington's policy analysis and recommendations represent social work's advocacy for equal employment opportunity long before the related civil rights legislation in the 1960s
The South's Influence on the New Deal.pdf ×
Committed to a situated historical approach to studies of Congress, this article demonstrates how the 17-state Jim Crow South composed a structurally pivotal bloc during the New Deal and Fair Deal (1933–52) due to its size and cohesion and the need for southern votes to constitute majority coalitions. Empirically, it asks how southern members deployed this capacity and with what consequences. Utilizing a multilevel coding of policy substance, it tracks whether southern roll-call behavior was consistent with Democratic Party positions and traces changes over time with consequences for lawmaking and party politics. Analytically, the article moves beyond central current debates about parties and preferences that provide no distinctive place for the South and advances “situated partisanship,” an approach that privileges temporality and policy substance to understand when and with regard to which issues political parties are able to organize the preferences of their members and control lawmaking