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Depressions Depressions 1929 United States Economic history New Deal, 1933-1939 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Social conditions United States United States Economic conditions 1918-1945 United States Economic policy 1933-1945 United States Politics and government 1933-1945Henriques, Diana B.
Summary: "Taming the Street tells the epic story of the FDR's battle to regulate Wall Street for the very first time in the wake of the Crash of 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression. Deeply reported and vividly told, it provides a trip back to a time when the power of concentrated wealth in America arguably exceeded that of the federal government. Roosevelt's campaign to curb the excesses of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 HENFolsom, Burton W.
Summary: A revisionist perspective on FDR's presidency and the New Deal argues that such government programs as social security, minimum wage, and farm subsidies didn't work in the 1930s and do not work now, in a critical report that traces many modern problems to the FDR administration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 FOLBadger, Anthony J.
Summary: Anthony J. Badger details the first one hundred days of the United States' 32nd president, focusing on how President Roosevelt and the Democratic Congress created and enacted the New Deal and reformed the depressed country.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009