Myth of Liberal Ascendancy: Corporate Dominance from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

by G. William Domhoff

Book Overview

Based on new archival research, G. Williams Domhoff challenges popular conceptions of the 1930's New Deal. Arguing instead that this period was one of increasing corporate dominance in government affairs, affecting the fate of American workers up to the present day. While FDR's New Deal brought sweeping legislation, the tide turned quickly after 1938. From that year onward nearly every major new economic law passed by Congress showed the mark of corporate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612052568
• ISBN13: 9781612052564
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"