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Book

Fear itself : the New Deal and the origins of our time

Call Number

  • 973.917 K1999 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, c2013.

Physical Description

xii, 706 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contents

  • Triumph and sorrow
  • Fight against fear. A journey without maps ; Pilot, judge, senator ; "Strong medicine"
  • Southern cage. American with a difference ; Jim Crow Congress ; Ballots for soldiers
  • Emergency. Radical moment ; The first crusade ; Unrestricted war
  • Democracy's price. Public procedures, private interests ; "Wildest hopes" ; Armed and loyal
  • January 1953.

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