Fear Itself
The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First Edition.
Description: xii, 706 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, "a towering figure in the study of American and European history" (Cornel West), boldly asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. This original study brings to vivid life the politicians and pundits of the time, including Walter Lippmann, who argued that America needed a dose of dictatorship; Mississippi's five-foot-two Senator Theodore Bilbo, who advocated the legal separation of races; and Robert Oppenheimer, who built the atomic bomb yet was tragically undone by the nation's hysteria. Fear Itself is a necessary work, vital to understanding our world--a world the New Deal first made.
Contents:
Triumph and sorrow -- Fight against fear. A journey without maps ; Pilot, judge, senator ; "Strong medicine" -- Southern cage. American with a difference ; Jim Crow Congress ; Ballots for soldiers -- Emergency. Radical moment ; The first crusade ; Unrestricted war -- Democracy's price. Public procedures, private interests ; "Wildest hopes" ; Armed and loyal -- January 1953.
Subjects:
New Deal, 1933-1939.
World politics -- 1933-1945.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
World politics -- 1933-1945.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
ISBN:
9780871404503 (hardcover)
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HISTORY North Am. US Modern Kat | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [487]-659) and index.