The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press Versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938

by Gary Dean Best

This book challenges generally accepted views by concluding that the critical press, so often characterized by pro-New Deal historians as conservative or reactionary, was in fact a good deal more liberal than Roosevelt and his advisors. Without its opposition to Roosevelt's policies during the years before Congress began to reassert its constitutional responsibilities, the United States might well have deviated considerably from the path of constitutional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027594350X
• ISBN13: 9780275943509
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"