The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism : a Defining Rivalry.

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Author / Creator:Lloyd, J. G. (J. Gordon)
Imprint:Chicago : Hoover Institution Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (121 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11209691
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Other authors / contributors:Davenport, David, 1950-
ISBN:9780817916886
0817916881
9780817916862
0817916865
9780817916848
0817916849
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Summary:Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today's U.S. domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying out the progressive-conservative arguments between Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s and illustrating how those issues remain current in public policy today. The authors detail how Hoover, alarmed by the excesses of the New Deal, pointed to the ideas that would constitute modern U.S. conservatism and.
Other form:Print version: 9780817916848