Richard Lowitt. The New Deal and the West. (West in the Twentieth Century). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1984. Pp. xviii, 283. $25.00

1985 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The West ◽  
The New Deal

NATO Retrospect

1961 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence S. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
The West ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Party Differences ◽  
The New Deal

NatoHas appeared under many labels since its creation — Guardian of Peace, Pawn of Power Politics, Savior of the West, and Harbinger of War. All of them probably have some validity. But no matter which sobriquet is most applicable, the most significant feature of the alliance may be that it has survived twelve years of continuous challenges. By its survival it has become the symbol of America's abandonment of isolationism. In an age in which foreign policy plays the kind of role in domestic politics that would have been unthinkable in the nineteenth century, NATO represents a coherence in foreign policy that transcends party differences. Conceived under the Republican 80th Congress, put into effect by President Truman and Secretary Acheson, and expanded by President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles, NATO now takes its place with the New Deal as a major factor in American life in the mid-twentieth century.

Peter Sekaer: Slum Conditions in America

Prospects ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 391-415
Author(s):  
Michael G. Sundell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Farm Security Administration ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
The West ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Federal Bureaucracy ◽  
Resettlement Administration ◽  
The New Deal

To most people, federally-sponsored photography during the New Deal means the splendid file of images created by the Resettlement Administration–later the Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Understandable as it is, this equation simplifies truth. By the time of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in March 1933, the use of photography was commonplace in the federal bureaucracy, reflecting practices that had been developing for more than half a century. Since the Civil War, federal officials had profited from the precision of photography and from its deceptive appearance of objectivity to preserve information and sometimes to influence opinion. A few government projects had resulted in compelling educational documentations that were also recognized as compelling art. Most notably, photographers like John Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'sullivan, and Carleton Watkins, tested by the opportunity to expand the possibilities of their medium while addressing a great national theme, had compiled in their records of the exploration of the West documentations that helped to change public policy by providing images with the power to crystallize the country's sense of its identity and potential growth.

The New Deal in the West: A Preliminary Statistical Inquiry

1969 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Arrington
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
The West ◽  
The New Deal

Peter Sekaer: Slum Conditions in America

Prospects ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 391-415
Author(s):  
Michael G. Sundell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Farm Security Administration ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
The West ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Federal Bureaucracy ◽  
Resettlement Administration ◽  
The New Deal

To most people, federally-sponsored photography during the New Deal means the splendid file of images created by the Resettlement Administration–later the Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Understandable as it is, this equation simplifies truth. By the time of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in March 1933, the use of photography was commonplace in the federal bureaucracy, reflecting practices that had been developing for more than half a century. Since the Civil War, federal officials had profited from the precision of photography and from its deceptive appearance of objectivity to preserve information and sometimes to influence opinion. A few government projects had resulted in compelling educational documentations that were also recognized as compelling art. Most notably, photographers like John Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'sullivan, and Carleton Watkins, tested by the opportunity to expand the possibilities of their medium while addressing a great national theme, had compiled in their records of the exploration of the West documentations that helped to change public policy by providing images with the power to crystallize the country's sense of its identity and potential growth.

scholarly journals The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Cowie ◽  
Nick Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
New Deal ◽  
American History ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract“The Long Exception” examines the period from Franklin Roosevelt to the end of the twentieth century and argues that the New Deal was more of an historical aberration—a byproduct of the massive crisis of the Great Depression—than the linear triumph of the welfare state. The depth of the Depression undoubtedly forced the realignment of American politics and class relations for decades, but, it is argued, there is more continuity in American politics between the periods before the New Deal order and those after its decline than there is between the postwar era and the rest of American history. Indeed, by the early seventies the arc of American history had fallen back upon itself. While liberals of the seventies and eighties waited for a return to what they regarded as the normality of the New Deal order, they were actually living in the final days of what Paul Krugman later called the “interregnum between Gilded Ages.” The article examines four central themes in building this argument: race, religion, class, and individualism.

The New Deal and the West

1985 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Otis L. Graham ◽  
Richard Lowitt
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
The West ◽  
The New Deal

The New Deal and the West

1985 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 892
Author(s):  
John A. Brennan ◽  
Richard Lowitt
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
The West ◽  
The New Deal

scholarly journals Cerco à liberdade: a complexa dinâmica do poder nos EUA

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Cecilia Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Deal ◽  
American Government ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The New Deal

<em><span>Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present</span></em><span>, publicado em 2015 pela prestigiosa Princeton University Press, se impõe como uma obra fundamental para todos os interessados em História dos Estados, como também o são dois livros anteriores do autor - <em>The rise and fall of the New Deal Order</em> (organizado em conjunto com Steve Fraser) e <em>The American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century.</em> Atualmente na Universidade de Cambridge, na Inglaterra, Gary Gerstle é sem dúvida nenhuma um dos maiores nomes da historiografia dos EUA, laureado com os mais relevantes prêmios ao longo de sua trajetória acadêmica no país. Após se notabilizar na História Social, enveredando por questões também caras à História Cultural, como a das identidades coletivas, Gerstle, com o livro em tela, contribui para o ímpeto recente da História Política, especificamente dos estudos sobre as instituições governamentais, tema que não despertou muito entusiasmo nos historiadores de sua geração. </span>

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