{"product_id":"when-good-government-meant-big-government-9780231189736","title":"When Good Government Meant Big Government","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the United States to a halt. Jesse Tarbert reveals a forgotten effort by business-allied reformers to expand federal power—and how that effort was foiled by Southern Democrats and their political allies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhen Good Government Meant Big Government,\u003c\/i\u003e we see American policy makers look, for the first time, to the corporation for inspiration in how to run the country, only to find that America could not be as easily ruled as the market. In this sweeping and writerly history, Tarbert lays bare the prehistory of our own times, as early twentieth-century reformers struggle with how to manage big government, white supremacy, and economic dislocations. -- Louis Hyman, author of \u003ci\u003eTemp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere have been dramatic fights in recent years about the size and scope of government and whether the country needs another New Deal. In \u003ci\u003eWhen Good Government Meant Big Government\u003c\/i\u003e, Jesse Tarbert offers new insights into those conflicts by tracing how self-described “public men” took inspiration from big businesses in their efforts to clean up and expand an executive branch that had become large, unwieldy, and ineffective before WWI. -- Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, author of \u003ci\u003eIndentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Good Government Meant Big Government \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an authoritative history of the United States’ twentieth-century evolution into a nation equipped with a powerful central government. That path, Tarbert argues, was forged with the help of a powerful set of business-oriented elites eager to import corporate practice into the federal government and keen to demonstrate that the most egregious racist excess damaged America’s reputation as a “nation of laws.” -- Brian Balogh, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing Schumpeter’s observation that “the budget is the skeleton of the state,” Tarbert offers readers a clearly written, well researched, and historiographically up-to-date analysis of federal budget policy from Wilson to FDR. Historians, political scientists, and historical sociologists can all profit from Tarbert’s judicious analysis of the partisan divisions that shaped the policy debate—a factionalism that in often surprising ways prefigured the political landscape we live in today. -- Richard R. John, author of \u003ci\u003eNetwork Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTarbert’s book joins a rich literature on the creation and development of the American state...[and] will require historians, APD scholars, and lawyers to grapple with the argument. -- Patrick J. Sobkowski * Liberal Currents *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Administration and Accommodation: Before 1913\u003cbr\u003e2. The Elite Reformers in Exile: 1913–1918\u003cbr\u003e3. After the Armistice: Spring 1919\u003cbr\u003e4. The Budget Debate: 1919–1920\u003cbr\u003e5. The Dark Horse: 1920–1921\u003cbr\u003e6. Early Success: Spring and Summer 1921\u003cbr\u003e7. Equal Protection Under Law: 1921–1923\u003cbr\u003e8. Backlash: Spring and Summer 1923\u003cbr\u003e9. Southern Strength: 1923–1924\u003cbr\u003e10. Congressional Counteroffensive: Spring 1924\u003cbr\u003e11. Low Expectations: 1924–1927\u003cbr\u003e12. The Great Engineer: 1929–1931\u003cbr\u003e13. Dashed Hopes: 1930–1933\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400335106391,"sku":"9780231189736","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231189736.jpg?v=1730470421","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-good-government-meant-big-government-9780231189736","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}