Fear Itself (eBook)

The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

Ira Katznelson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
720 Seiten
Liveright (Verlag)
978-0-87140-660-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A work that "e;deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions"e; (David Kennedy), Fear Itself changes the ground rules for our understanding of this pivotal era in American history. Ira Katznelson examines the New Deal through the lens of a pervasive, almost existential fear that gripped a world defined by the collapse of capitalism and the rise of competing dictatorships, as well as a fear created by the ruinous racial divisions in American society. Katznelson argues that American democracy was both saved and distorted by a Faustian collaboration that guarded racial segregation as it built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. Fear Itself charts the creation of the modern American state and "e;how a belief in the common good gave way to a central government dominated by interest-group politics and obsessed with national security"e; (Louis Menand, The New Yorker).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 24 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Acting • Americanism • Blacks • Congresses • Democrats • economically • federalize • governs • Includes • laborer • legislated • Military • nationalized • News • Parties • Policy • polite • Power • presiding • Republicans • senators • southerner • Stated • unionize • voted • Wars
• ISBN-10: 0-87140-660-8 / 0871406608
• ISBN-13: 978-0-87140-660-6 / 9780871406606