Old War on New Deal

The new book Invisible Hands reveals how quickly conservatives organized to challenge New Deal liberalism.

By Alexander Gourse

Academic historians tend to write about modern U.S. political history as a "great unraveling." The Great Depression, the story goes, created opportunities for proponents of social democracy in the United States. FDR's New Deal--which grassroots social movements pushed to the left--established the basic contours [RETURN TO ARTICLE]