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What history should you read about the New Deal to inform the present moment?
With the caveat that I *will* forget something, so forgive me now: I would skew toward more recent work, reflecting as it does the most thorough reading and scholarship … https://twitter.com/JasonScottSmit6/status/1391099986138439684
With the caveat that I *will* forget something, so forgive me now: I would skew toward more recent work, reflecting as it does the most thorough reading and scholarship … https://twitter.com/JasonScottSmit6/status/1391099986138439684
So first I’ll return the favor: @JasonScottSmit6 ’s essay, “triumph of the mixed economy,” in @huret_romain , @NelsonLichtens1 , and @JCVINEL ’s 2020 collection, which pushes (appropriately) hard on the “triumph” theme: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv16qjz8c.6
Lots of older work on the New Deal inexplicably misses this point, and I think it’s good for us to get used to reframing our understanding of the 1930s in light of the data.
Also recent work by an established scholar: the chapters on Hoover and Roosevelt in Leuchtenburg’s 2015 AMERICAN PRESIDENT; WEL notes Hoover was a strong president who worked hard to circumscribe the power of the federal government. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-american-president-9780195176162?cc=us&lang=en&
Gareth Davis has an excellent chapter on how established the New Deal was by 1940, in a book edited with @julianzelizer : http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucdavis/detail.action?docID=3442564
On the relation of immigration to the New Deal, @JuliaRoseKraut ’s chapter on the transition from Hoover to Roosevelt in her 2020 book: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv12sdv9z.7
Also 2020: Jill Watts’s BLACK CABINET https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-black-cabinet/
On New Deal housing policy, @ChloeThurstonDC ’s 2018 book https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/at-the-boundaries-of-homeownership/59212D3DEC471C51E6990002E2C367E3
On the TVA’s economic impact, the Kline and Moretti study of 2014 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26372549
There are lots of “macroeconomic lessons of” but especially see Barry Eichengreen’s “historical mirror” essay of 2017, here http://muse.jhu.edu/book/56795
and also Crafts and Fearon, a bit older at 2010, but here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43664566
on New Deal Art, Sharon Musher’s chapter in this 2014 collection: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucdavis/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&docID=3121131
There’s a tremendous amount on conservatism and resistance to the New Deal; you might look at @ksolmsted ’s 2015 RIGHT OUT OF CALIFORNIA https://thenewpress.com/books/right-out-of-california
or the relevant bits of @katisjewell ’s DOLLARS FOR DIXIE, 2017 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dollars-for-dixie/837EF96E866A43E865E10D72F350AA7A
or @LarryGlickman ’s 2019 FREE ENTERPRISE https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300238259/free-enterprise
Eric Schicker’s 2013 work, and after, on the later New Deal and racial liberalism is also valuable: http://www.jstor.com/stable/43280690
I like @masonbwilliams ’s book on La Guardia, 2013: CITY OF AMBITION https://wwnorton.com/books/City-of-Ambition/
and Marsha Weisiger on the Navajos and the New Deal, 2007 and after (I really think the Taylor Grazing Act and the Wheeler Howard Act need to be part of general discussions of the New Deal) https://www.jstor.org/stable/25443605
all right, as @JasonScottSmit6 said, more suggestions welcome; you might notice I didn’t mention my own books but OF COURSE I think you should read them and no, this list is not complete
see, I would definitely recommend @danscroop ’s book on Farley https://twitter.com/mkazin/status/1391113377603272708
