The Great Depression and the New Deal / / Robert F. Himmelberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813333103321
• Autore: Himmelberg Robert F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2001; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• ISBN: 979-84-00-65904-1; 1-280-86899-6; 9786610868995; 0-313-00718-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Collana: Greenwood Press guides to historic events of the twentieth century, , 1092-177X
• Disciplina: 973.92
• Soggetti: Depressions - 1929 - United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States History 1919-1933; United States History 1933-1945
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Copyright Acknowledgments -- ADVISORY BOARD -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chronology of Events -- THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL EXPLAINED -- 1 The Great Depression and the New Deal: An Overview -- PRELUDE TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION: AMERICA IN THE 1920s -- THE GREAT CRASH AND THE DEPRESSION'S COURSE, 1929-1932 -- THE DEPRESSION BECOMES A CATASTROPHE, 1931-1933 -- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE FIRST NEW DEAL, 1933-1935 -- FDR AND THE SECOND NEW DEAL -- THE LAST PHASE OF THE NEW DEAL, 1937-1940 -- 2 A Decade of Depression, 1929-1941: Theories of Cause and Cure -- THE UNIQUE SEVERITY OF THE DEPRESSION -- EARLY THEORIES ABOUT THE DEPRESSION -- LATER THEORIES: UNDERCONSUMPTION AND OVERPRODUCTION -- THE EMERGENCE OF KEYNESIANISM -- WHY WAS THERE A FAILURE OF INVESTMENT? -- THE MONETARY FACTOR -- 3 America's Struggle Against the Depression, 1929-1940: From Hoover to Roosevelt and the New Deal -- HOOVER'S "NEW DAY" -- ; HOOVER VERSUS THE DEPRESSION -- FDR AND THE COMING OF THE NEW DEAL -- THE FIRST NEW DEAL, 1933-1935 -- THE COMING OF THE SECOND NEW DEAL -- THE SECOND NEW DEAL -- POLITICAL OPPOSITION AND POLITICAL TRIUMPH: THE ELECTION OF 1936 -- REACTION AND DECLINE-THE NEW DEAL'S LAST PHASE -- 4 The Great Depression and American Politics -- REALIGNMENT-THE NEW DEAL COALITION -- ORIGINS OF THE NEW DEAL COALITION -- FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT AND THE MAKING OF THE NEW DEAL COALITION, 1932-1935 -- THE ELECTION OF 1936 AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW DEAL COALITION -- RISE OF THE CONSERVATIVE COALITION AND THE DECLINE OF THE NEW DEAL -- THE ELECTION OF 1940 -- 5 Society and Culture in the Depression Decade -- THE DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL AND WOMEN -- THE NEW DEAL AND BLACKS -- SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE DEPRESSION DECADE -- 6 The New Deal: An Evaluation -- NOTE.; Biographies: The Personalities Behind the Great Depression and the New Deal -- Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr. (1895-1971) -- Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) -- Benjamin Victor Cohen (1894-1983) -- Thomas Gardiner Corcoran (1900-1981) -- Fr. Charles Edward Coughlin (1891-1979) -- Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) -- John Nance Garner (1868-1967) -- Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) -- John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) -- Harry Lloyd Hopkins (1890-1946) -- Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952) -- Hugh Samuel Johnson (1882-1942) -- John Llewellyn Lewis (1880-1969) -- Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) -- Raymond Moley (1886-1975) -- Henry T. Morgenthau, Jr. (1891-1967) -- George William Norris (1861-1944) -- Frances Perkins (1880-1965) -- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (1882-1961) -- Walter Philip Reuther (1907-1970) -- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) -- Rexford Guy Tugwell (1891-1979) -- Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965) -- NOTE -- Primary Documents of the Great Depression and the New Deal -- Document 1 THE DEBATE OVER RELIEF -- Document 2 THE NEW DEAL BEGINS -- Document 3 FDR'S THIRD FIRESIDE CHAT -- Document 4 HUEY LONG AND SHARE OUR WEALTH -- Document 5 THE SECOND NEW DEAL-THE FIGHT AGAINST ECONOMIC ROYALISTS AND FOR REFORM -- Document 6 THE SUPREME COURT'S SWITCH -- Document 7 THE NEW DEAL AND RESTORING FREE ENTERPRISE -- Document 8 A REPUBLICAN ASSESSMENT OF THE NEW DEAL -- Document 9 THE NEW DEAL AND THE REMAKING OF THE WEST -- Document 10 THE NEW DEAL AND THE FIRST LADY -- Glossary of Selected Terms -- Annotated Bibliography -- GENERAL WORKS ON THE ERA OF THE DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL -- ECONOMY AND SOCIETY DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION -- HERBERT HOOVER AND THE DEPRESSION -- FDR IN THE DEPRESSION YEARS: BIOGRAPHIES -- THE FIRST NEW DEAL -- POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES AND OPPONENTS OF THE NEW DEAL -- THE SECOND NEW DEAL.; POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES -- SOCIETY AND CULTURE DURING THE DEPRESSION ERA -- WOMEN AND MINORITIES DURING THE DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL -- VIDEOS -- Index -- About the Author.