New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State

by William J Novak and William J. Novak

The activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in America.

In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed, with momentous implications for social and economic life. A series of legal reforms gradually brought an end to nineteenth-century traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674260449
• ISBN13: 9780674260443
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"