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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):383-385; doi:10.1093/es/khn028
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Robert Shogan. Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal

Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Deer, 2006. xii + 275 pp. ISBN 1-56663-674-4, $26.95 (cloth)

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The title of this book, bringing to mind several recent political polemics, might lead one to expect an indictment of recent presidential administrations for attempting to dismantle cherished New Deal programs. Robert Shogan has a different "killing of the New Deal" in mind, however, namely that of the New Deal's zeitgeist of policy activism and "bold, persistent experimentation." By August 1935, virtually all of the landmark New Deal programs had been enacted, and Franklin D. Roosevelt himself declared that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ranjit S. Dighe

State University of New York at Oswego


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