{"product_id":"the-great-exception-9780691175737","title":"The Great Exception","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cowie--like the best work of the mid-century historian Richard Hofstadter, whom he frequently cites--has written not so much a work of American history as a brilliant meditation about a central dilemma of American history.\"--In These Times \"Jefferson Cowie offers a grand interpretation of the road blocks to change... A rich survey, studded with insights culled from a generation of scholarship.\"--Michael Kazin, Bookforum \"Cowie sings the achievements of the New Deal in a tragic register, emphasizing its transformative power while lingering on its compromises... Cowie's vision is coherent and arresting, and helps to make sense of recurring puzzles in American political experience. As a literary-intellectual posture, moreover, his fatalism is downright infectious.\"--Democracy \"Important.\"--Harold Meyerson, American Prospect \"One of the year's most important political books.\"--E.J. Dione Jr., Washington Post \"Engaging and highly readable, Cowie's book provides an excellent, thought-provoking introduction to American economic and political history.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROLOGUE Philadelphia, 1936 1  INTRODUCTION Rethinking the New Deal in American History 9  CHAPTER 1 The Question of Democracy in the Age of Incorporation 35  CHAPTER 2 Kaleidoscope of Reform 63  CHAPTER 3 Working-Class Interregnum 91  CHAPTER 4 Constraints and Fractures in the New Liberalism 123  CHAPTER 5 The Great Exception in Action 153  CHAPTER 6 Toward a New Gilded Age 179  CHAPTER 7 The Era of Big Government Is Not Over (But the New Deal Probably Is) 209  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 231  NOTES 235  INDEX 263","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403845640535,"sku":"9780691175737","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691175737.jpg?v=1730484700","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-great-exception-9780691175737","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}