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Book SynopsisDrawing from a wide variety of scholarly texts, records of the Roosevelt administration, Depression-era newspapers and periodicals, and biographies and reflections of the New Dealers, Lawson offers a comprehensive conceptual base for a crucial aspect of American history.
Trade ReviewRecommended. Choice 2007 Every so often a book comes along in the academic world that is truly refreshing in the sense that the author makes a good case for his ideas and does so without any political ideology or political correctness lurking in the background... A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis, is one of those rare books. -- Michael V. Namorato Journal of Economic History 2007 Sparkling and engagingly written... Scholars interested in the histories of the New Deal, the federal government, and the Great Depression must read this provocative and elegant book. -- Jason Scott Smith Business History Review 2007 Optimistic, lively and exceptionally well-written synthesis. -- Daniel Scroop Journal of American Studies 2007 Elegantly written contribution... Specialists in the period and in American political development will want to read and ponder it, and teachers in those fields might well consider it for class adoption. -- Ellis Hawley Annals of Iowa 2007 An original and valuable contribution to New Deal literature. -- Maria Mazzenga Enterprise and Society 2008 A welcome addition to the literature on the New Deal. All academic libraries should acquire this book, and it is suitable for the general public as well. -- Richard E. Holl Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 A Commonwealth of Hope provides a highly readable and illuminating synthesis of some of the best scholarship on the New Deal. -- John F. Bauman Indiana Magazine of History 2008
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. Prelude: The Fall of the American System
2. The Shaping of Franklin Roosevelt
3. Landslide
4. The Struggle for Financial Stability
5. The Recovery of Industry
6. Saving the Farms
7. Launching the Welfare State
8. Revival of the Spirit
9. Renewing the New Deal Lease
10. The Judicial Revolution
11. The Rendezvous with Destiny
12. The Common Man at the End of the Decade
13. The International Climax
Epilogue: Another Cycle?
Essay on Sources
Index
