Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0061836966 ISBN13: 9780061836961 Release Date: February 2009 Publisher: Harper Perennial Length: 432 Pages Weight: 0.73 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 7.8" When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United States--and explains how the social fabric of American life was forever altered. It offers illuminating lessons on the challenges of economic transformation--for our time and for all time.