Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time - Couverture rigide

Katznelson, Ira

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0871404508 ISBN 13 : 9780871404503

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013

Synopsis

Redefining the traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern legislators who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. This study brings to life the politicians and pundits of the time, including Walter Lippmann, who argued that America needed a dose of dictatorship; Mississippi's five-foot-two Senator Theodore Bilbo, who advocated the legal separation of races; and Robert Oppenheimer, who built the atomic bomb yet was undone by the nation's hysteria. Fear Itself is a work vital to understanding America and the world the New Deal made.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ira Katznelson is Columbia University's Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, and has served as the president of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of When Affirmative Action Was White (ISBN 978 0 393 32851 6).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0871404508
• ISBN 13: 9780871404503
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 720
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible