The Great Exception

The Great Exception The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics - Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780691143804
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 973.917
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: -1g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm