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Selected Books about the New Deal

Badger, Anthony J. The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940 . Ivan R. Dee, 2002.
Barber, William J. Designs within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945. Cambridge, 1996.
Bauman, John F. 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.
Braeman, John.

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.
Clarke, Jeanne N. Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold Ickes and the New Deal . Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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 . 2nd ed. Harlan Davidson, 1975.
Davis, Kenneth S. FDR, the New Deal Years, 1933-1937 . Random House, 1986.
Dubofsky, Melvyn 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.
Ellis, Thomas H. Recollections of the New Deal . Northeastern University Press, 1992.
Fraser, Steve. 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 Recent History of the United States, 1983.
Graham, Otis L. The New Deal . Little, Brown, 1973.
Hamilton, David E. The New Deal. Houghton, Mifflin, 1999.
Hawley, Ellis. The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly. Princeton University Press, 1966.
Himmelberg, Robert The Great Depression and the New Deal. Greenwood Press, 2001.
Irons, Peter. The New Deal Lawyers. Princeton University Press, 1982.
Karl, Barry P. The Uneasy State. University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Lash, Joseph P. Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal. Doubleday, 1988.
Leuchtenburg, Wm. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933-1940 . 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.
Mettler, Suzanne. Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy . Cornell University Press, 1998.
Milkman, Paul. PM: A New Deal in Journalism. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Moley, Raymond. The First New Deal . Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the New Deal . Greenwood Press, 1985.
Rauch, Basil. The History of the New Deal, 1933-1938 . Creative Age, 1944.
Reagan, Patrick D. Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943 . University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
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. FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy. Praeger, 1997.
Sternsher, Bernard. Hope Restored: How the New Deal Worked in Town and Country . Ivan R. Dee, 1999.
United States. The Great Depression and the New Deal: Legislative Acts in Their Entirety (1932-1933) and Statistical Economic Data (1926-1946). McFarland & Co., 1992.
Venn, Fiona. The New Deal. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.
Vittoz, Stanley. New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
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.

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