New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in the 1936 Presidential Election - Couverture souple

Webber, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 082321947X ISBN 13 : 9780823219476

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2000

Synopsis

In New Deal Fat Cats, Michael Webber offers a fresh perspective on the New Deal. The author analyzes the role of various segments of society in party politics during the political change brought on by the Great Depression. Webber uses analysis of campaign contribution as a major method of evaluating the 1936 presidential election. Today's readers may be surprised at the statistical breakdown of the group that reelected FDR. These groups ranged from southern Democrats and organized labor, to Catholics, Jews, and small businesses. A considerable portion of the author's analysis rests on interpretive literature about the politics of the New Deal and specifically about the role of business in the construction of those politics. The emphasis of this work is on the coalition of what seem to be disparate elements in society suggesting that large and monolithic power blocks are not necessarily the road to major political change in U.S. society. The reader will begin to sense the seemingly divisive pressures from different groups that made the New Deal not only a paradox, but an effective social reality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael Webber is Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of San Francisco.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082321947X
• ISBN 13: 9780823219476
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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