The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism, Volume 642: A Defining Rivalry

by Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport

Book Overview

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 US 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817916849
• ISBN13: 9780817916848
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"