Bibliography: New Deal
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Author | Title |
Badger, Anthony J. |
FDR: The First Hundred Days. Hill and Wang, 2008.
The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940. Ivan R. Dee, 2002.
New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader University of Arkansas Press, 2007. |
Barber, William J. |
Designs within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
Bauman, John F. and Thomas H. Coode |
In the Eye of the Great Depression: New Deal Reporters and the Agony of the American People. Northern Illinois University Press, 1988. |
Best, Gary D. |
Pride, Prejudice and Politics: Roosevelt versus Recovery, 1933-1938. Praeger, 1991. |
Biles, Roger |
A New Deal for the American People. Northern Illinois University Press, 1991. |
Bindas, Kenneth J.
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Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South University Press of Florida, 2007 |
Bold, Christine
|
Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers' Project in Massachusetts University of Massachusetts Pres, 2006 |
Bolden, Tonya |
FDR’s Alphabet Soup: New Deal America, 1932-1939. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. |
Borgwardt, Elizabeth |
A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. |
Braeman, John, ed. |
The New Deal. Ohio State University Press, 1975. v. 1 The National Level v. 2 The State and Local Levels |
Brinkley, Alan |
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. |
Carter, Ennis
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Posters for the People: Art of the WPA Quirk Books, 2008 |
Choate, Jean |
Disputed Ground: Farm Groups that opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program. McFarland, 2002. |
Clarke, Jeanne N. |
Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. |
Clemens, Elizabeth
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The Works Progress Administration in Detroit Arcadia Publishing, 2008 |
Cohen, Wilbur, J. |
The Roosevelt New Deal: A Program Assessment Fifty Years After. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 1986. |
Conkin, Paul F. |
The New Deal. 3rd ed. Harlan Davidson, 1992. |
Davis, Anita Price
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New Deal Art in North Carolina: The Murals, Sculptures, Reliefs, Paintings, Oils and Frescoes and Their Creators McFarland & Co., 2009 |
Davis, Kenneth S. |
FDR, the New Deal Years, 1933-1937. Random House, 1986. |
Dewing, Rolland
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Regions in Transition: The Northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in the Great Depression University Press of America, 2006 |
Downey, Kirstin |
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience. Doubleday, 2009. |
Dubofsky, Melvyn and Stephen Burwood |
The New Deal. Garland Publishers, 1990. |
Eden, Robert |
The New Deal and Its Legacy: Critique and Reappraisal Greenwood Press, 1989. |
Edsforth, Ronald |
The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. Blackwell Publishers, 2000. |
Eliot, Thomas H. |
Recollections of the New Deal: When the People Mattered. Northeastern University Press, 1992. |
Esperdy, Gabrielle |
Modernizing Main Street : Architecture and Conservation Culture in the New Deal. University of Chicago Press, 2008. |
Fearon, Peter
|
Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation University of Missouri Press, 2007 |
Flynn, Kathryn A. |
The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration. Gibbs Smith, 2008. |
Folsom, Burton, Jr.
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New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America Threshold Editions, 2008 |
Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle |
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Princeton University Press, 1989. |
Freidel, Frank |
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny. Little, Brown, 1990. |
Gelfand, Lawrence. |
The New Deal, Viewed from Fifty Years. Center for the Study of the Recent History of the United States, 1984. |
Graham, Otis L. |
The New Deal: The Critical Issues. Little, Brown, 1971.
Great Depression and the New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia, 2 volumes. ABC-CLIO, 2010. |
Grieve, Victoria |
The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture. University of Illinois Press, 2009. |
Gross, Steven Jay |
"Civic Hands upon the Land: Diverse Patterns of Social Education in the Civilian Conservations Corps and Its Analogues, 1933-1942" In Social Education in the Twentieth Century: Curriculum and Context for Citizenship. Peter Lang, 2004. |
Hamilton, David E. |
The New Deal. Houghton, Mifflin, 1999. |
Hawley, Ellis |
The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly; a Study in Economic Ambivalence. Princeton University Press, 1966. |
Hillstrom, Kevin
|
The Great Depression and the New Deal Omnigraphics, 2009 |
Hosen, Frederick E. |
The Great Depression and the New Deal: Legislative Acts in Their Entirety (1932-1933) and Statistical Economic Data (1926-1946). McFarland, 1992. |
Irons, Peter |
The New Deal Lawyers. Princeton University Press, 1982. |
Jarrow, Gail
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Robert H. Jackson: New Deal Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg Prosecutor Calkins Creek, 2008 |
Karl, Barry D. |
The Uneasy State: The United States from 1915 to 1945. University of Chicago Press, 1983. |
Kolvet, Renée Corona and Victoria Ford
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men University of Nevada Press, 2006 |
Lash, Joseph P. |
Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal. Doubleday, 1988. |
Leighninger, Robert D., Jr.
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Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration University Press of Mississippi, 2007 |
Leuchtenburg, William |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. Harper and Row, 1963.
The New Deal: A Documentary History. Harper & Row, 1968. |
Levine, Rhonda |
Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State. University Press of Kansas, 1988. |
Louchheim, Katie |
The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak. Harvard University Press, 1983. |
Maher, Neil M.
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Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement Oxford University Press, 2008 |
McElvaine, Robert S. |
The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941. Times Books, 1984. |
Mettler, Suzanne |
Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy. Cornell University Press, 1998. |
Milkman, Paul |
PM: A New Deal in Journalism, 1940-1948. Rutgers University Press, 1997. |
Moley, Raymond |
The First New Deal. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. |
Moore, Robert J.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country: Working in the Woods University of Nevada Press, 2006 |
Olson, James S. |
Historical Dictionary of the New Deal From Inauguration to Preparation for War Greenwood Press, 1985. |
Phillips, Sarah T.
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This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
Poole, Mary
|
The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State University of North Carolina Press, 2006 |
Quinn, Susan
|
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times Walker & Co., 2008 |
Rauch, Basil |
The History of the New Deal, 1933-1938. Creative Age Press, 1944. |
Reagan, Patrick D. |
Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943. University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. |
Robinson, Edgar |
The Roosevelt Leadership, 1933-1945. Lippincott, 1955. |
Romasco, Albert U. |
The Politics of Recovery: Roosevelt's New Deal. Oxford University Press, 1983. |
Rosenof, Theodore |
Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993. University of North Carolina Press, 1997. |
Rozell, Mark J. and Wm. D.Peterson |
FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy. Praeger, 1997. |
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
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Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 Metropolitan Books, 2006 |
Scroop, Daniel |
Mr. Democrat: Jim Farley, the New Deal and the Making of Modern American Politics. University of Michigan Press, 2006. |
Shawhan, Dorothy S. and Martha H. Swain
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Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South Louisiana State University Press, 2006 |
Shlaes, Amity |
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. Harper Collins, 2007. |
Shogan, Robert
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Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal Ivan R. Dee, 2006 |
Smith, Jason Scott
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Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 Cambridge University Press, 2006 |
Spirn, Anne Whiston
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Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
Sternsher, Bernard |
Hope Restored: How the New Deal Worked in Town and Country. Ivan R. Dee, 1999. |
Taylor, David |
Soul of a People: The WPA Writer's Project Uncovers Depression America. Wiley, 2009. |
Taylor, Nick |
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work. Bantam Books, 2008. |
Thomas, Bernice |
The Stamp of FDR: New Deal Post Offices in the Mid-HudsonValley. Purple Mountain Press, 2002. |
Venn, Fiona |
The New Deal. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. |
Vittoz, Stanley |
New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy. University of North Carolina Press, 1987. |
Wall, Wendy L. |
Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford University Press, 2008. |
Ware, Susan |
Beyond Suffrage, Women in the New Deal. Harvard University Press, 1981. |
White, G. Edward |
The Constitution and the New Deal. Harvard University Press, 2000. |
Willard, Pat |
America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA. Bloomsbury, 2008. |