The Great Exception
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
1st Edition
Published on 8. July 2019
288 pages
978-1-4008-7441-5 (ISBN)
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Jefferson Cowie is the James G. Stahlman Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. His work has also appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE Philadelphia, 1936
- INTRODUCTION Rethinking the New Deal in American History
- CHAPTER ONE The Question of Democracy in the Age of Incorporation
- CHAPTER TWO Kaleidoscope of Reform
- CHAPTER THREE Working-Class Interregnum
- CHAPTER FOUR Constraints and Fractures in the New Liberalism
- CHAPTER FIVE The Great Exception in Action
- CHAPTER SIX Toward a New Gilded Age
- CHAPTER SEVEN The Era of Big Government Is Not Over (But the New Deal Probably Is)
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX
